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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