How to loop through table based on unique date in MATLAB - arrays

Question

I have this table named BondData which contains the following:
Settlement Maturity Price Coupon
8/27/2016 1/12/2017 106.901 9.250
8/27/2019 1/27/2017 104.79 7.000
8/28/2016 3/30/2017 106.144 7.500
8/28/2016 4/27/2017 105.847 7.000
8/29/2016 9/4/2017 110.779 9.125
For each day in this table, I am about to perform a certain task which is to assign several values to a variable and perform necessary computations. The logic is like:
do while Settlement is the same
m_settle=current_row_settlement_value
m_maturity=current_row_maturity_value
and so on...
my_computation_here...
end
It's like I wanted to loop through my settlement dates and perform task for as long as the date is the same.
EDIT: Just to clarify my issue, I am implementing Yield Curve fitting using Nelson-Siegel and Svensson models.Here are my codes so far:
function NS_SV_Models()
load bondsdata
BondData=table(Settlement,Maturity,Price,Coupon);
BondData.Settlement = categorical(BondData.Settlement);
Settlements = categories(BondData.Settlement); % get all unique Settlement
for k = 1:numel(Settlements)
rows = BondData.Settlement==Settlements(k);
Bonds.Settle = Settlements(k); % current_row_settlement_value
Bonds.Maturity = BondData.Maturity(rows); % current_row_maturity_value
Bonds.Prices=BondData.Price(rows);
Bonds.Coupon=BondData.Coupon(rows);
Settle = Bonds.Settle;
Maturity = Bonds.Maturity;
CleanPrice = Bonds.Prices;
CouponRate = Bonds.Coupon;
Instruments = [Settle Maturity CleanPrice CouponRate];
Yield = bndyield(CleanPrice,CouponRate,Settle,Maturity);
NSModel = IRFunctionCurve.fitNelsonSiegel('Zero',Settlements(k),Instruments);
SVModel = IRFunctionCurve.fitSvensson('Zero',Settlements(k),Instruments);
NSModel.Parameters
SVModel.Parameters
end
end
Again, my main objective is to get each model's parameters (beta0, beta1, beta2, etc.) on a per day basis. I am getting an error in Instruments = [Settle Maturity CleanPrice CouponRate]; because Settle contains only one record (8/27/2016), it's suppose to have two since there are two rows for this date. Also, I noticed that Maturity, CleanPrice and CouponRate contains all records. They should only contain respective data for each day.
Hope I made my issue clearer now. By the way, I am using MATLAB R2015a.

Answer 1

Use categorical array. Here is your function (without its' headline, and all rows I can't run are commented):
BondData = table(datetime(Settlement),datetime(Maturity),Price,Coupon,...
'VariableNames',{'Settlement','Maturity','Price','Coupon'});
BondData.Settlement = categorical(BondData.Settlement);
Settlements = categories(BondData.Settlement); % get all unique Settlement
for k = 1:numel(Settlements)
rows = BondData.Settlement==Settlements(k);
Settle = BondData.Settlement(rows); % current_row_settlement_value
Mature = BondData.Maturity(rows); % current_row_maturity_value
CleanPrice = BondData.Price(rows);
CouponRate = BondData.Coupon(rows);
Instruments = [datenum(char(Settle)) datenum(char(Mature))...
CleanPrice CouponRate];
% Yield = bndyield(CleanPrice,CouponRate,Settle,Mature);
%
% NSModel = IRFunctionCurve.fitNelsonSiegel('Zero',Settlements(k),Instruments);
% SVModel = IRFunctionCurve.fitSvensson('Zero',Settlements(k),Instruments);
%
% NSModel.Parameters
% SVModel.Parameters
end
Keep in mind the following:
You cannot concat different types of variables as you try to do in: Instruments = [Settle Maturity CleanPrice CouponRate];
There is no need in the structure Bond, you don't use it (e.g. Settle = Bonds.Settle;).
Use the relevant functions to convert between a datetime object and string or numbers. For instance, in the code above: datenum(char(Settle)). I don't know what kind of input you need to pass to the following functions.