moments_varendo Errors!

[maurice]

I run .mod under Dynare 4.0.4,have some difficulties to get the results?
the matlab show in the following:

??? Reference to non-existent field 'datenum'.

Error in ==> get_date_of_a_file at 22
d1 = info.datenum;

Error in ==> check_posterior_analysis_data at 31
mhdate = get_date_of_a_file(mhname);

Error in ==> posterior_analysis at 20
info = check_posterior_analysis_data(type,M_);

Error in ==> compute_moments_varendo at 41
oo_ = posterior_analysis('variance',var_list_(i,:),var_list_(j,:),[],options_,M_,oo_);

Error in ==> dynare_estimation_1 at 959
oo_ = compute_moments_varendo(options_,M_,oo_,var_list_);

Error in ==> dynare_estimation at 62
dynare_estimation_1(var_list,varargin{:});

Error in ==> bbgg1 at 332
dynare_estimation(var_list_);

Error in ==> dynare at 102
evalin('base',fname) ;

how to solve it?
I try many times,but fails,why?
anyone can help me?

[AssiaEzzeroug]

Hi,

the excel file you posted has apparently a problem with the format of numbers, I changed the font to "Arial" and it works now (see the attached files)..

Plus you need to specify the following options:
xls_sheet=Sheet1, for the name of the sheet containing the data
xls_range=A1:D45, for the range of the data

Best

[maurice]

Thank you for your sincerely help!
but,I can get the moments varendo results,could you help me further?

[AssiaEzzeroug]

Hi,

you cannot get them from a wrong mode computation. By running your code, I see that the optimization doesn't converge. I suggest you to add a block "estimated_params_init;' in order to assign starting values to the parameters to be estimated (Note that by default, dynare takes the prior mean for the initialization of the optimization process)

Hope this helps

[maurice]

Thank you for your reply!
I will try !

[maurice]

I have find the fault in code!
but this code is runing for long time.
Do you have some mehtod to reduce its runing time?