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Eviews Tutorial
Spring, 2004
Econometrics 322Prof. Paczkowski
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Eviews Blank Screen
You will type commands here
Output will appear here
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Create a Workspace First
ClickFile/New/WorkFile
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Example of Times Series Data
1. Click Annualfor annual data
2. Enter the time period
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Example of Cross Sectional Data
1. Click Undatedfor cross sectional data
2. Enter number of observations starting from 1 and ending with n
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Eviews automatically creates two buttons
1. The “c” button holds constants
2. The “resid” button holds residuals
You will learn about these later.
The 5 observations specified earlier
This space will hold all the variable names created
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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
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.
1. Click “View” to view data
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Cutting and pasting from Excel
Close the input window to enter a new series, or click
“View” on the input menu bar to view the data just entered.
1. Copy
2. Paste
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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
2. Select “View” again to return to the spreadsheet or open another view (e.g., graphs).
1. Use a button to select another view
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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 series2. Right click3. 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”
3. View results as normal
Mean is 4Max is 6
