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
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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.
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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.
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View the data
To view stats on the data:
1. Click “View”
2. Select “Descriptive Statistics”
3. Select “Stats Table”
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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).
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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. Select the two series
2. Right click
3. Select “Open”
4. 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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