Eviews Tutorial

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Econometrics 322 Prof. Paczkowski

Eviews Tutorial Spring, 2004

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Eviews Blank Screen

You will type commands here

Output will appear here

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Create a Workspace First

Click File/New/WorkFile

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Example of Times Series Data

1. Click Annual for annual data

2. Enter the time period

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Example of Cross Sectional Data

1. Click Undated for cross sectional data 2. Enter number of observations starting from 1 and ending with n Version 1.0

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Eviews automatically creates two buttons The 5 observations specified earlier 1. The “c” button holds constants 2. The “resid” button holds This space will hold residuals all the variable names created You will learn about these later.

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Create a new series with 5 observations

1. Click “Objects” on the Workfile menu 2. Click “New Object”

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Specify the series name

1. Pick “Series” 2. Enter a series name (e.g., TestData)

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EViews creates a new button

A button for testdata. But the button is empty. Click it to enter the data. There is one button per series.

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A spreadsheet for the testdata data

Space for the 5 observations specified.

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Enter the data 1. Click “View” to view data

2. Click “Edit+/-” to toggle edit on/off

Enter the data here

Close the input window to enter a new series, or click “View” on the input menu bar to view the data just entered. Version 1.0

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Cutting and pasting from Excel

1. Copy

2. Paste Close the input window to enter a new series, or click “View” on the input menu bar to view the data just entered. Version 1.0

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View the data

To view stats on the data: 1. Click “View” 2. Select “Descriptive Statistics” 3. Select “Stats Table” Version 1.0

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A Statistics View 1. Use a button to select another view

2. Select “View” again to return to the spreadsheet or open another view (e.g., graphs). Version 1.0

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Graph View

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Click any part of the graph for options

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Viewing two or more series

1. 2. 3. 4.

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Select the two series Right click Select “Open” Select “as Group”

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Viewing two series

Click “View” button as before

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Stats on the group

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Calculations in EViews 1. Enter calculations here, such as: c(1) = @mean(testdata)

2. Results in “c”

Mean is 4 Max is 6

3. View results as normal

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