Eviews Tutorial

Eviews Tutorial
(some details in the introduction handout)
Jianguo Wang
CSSCR September 2009
CSSCR September 2009
What is Eviews
What is Eviews
• EViews is a (econometrics) software package is a (econometrics) software package
that provides tools for data analysis, regression and forecasting
regression, and forecasting. • EVi
EViews has an object (things) oriented design. h
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Information is stored in objects. Objects: things in Eviews
Objects: things in Eviews
• Each object a particular area of analysis.
Each object a particular area of analysis
• Each type of object has an associated set of h
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views and procedures that can be used with the information in that object. h i f
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Importing Time Series Data
Importing Time Series Data
• If you have a Eview
If you have a Eview workfile, directly open it
workfile directly open it
• If not
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• 1) Data Set 1: suppose you have a data with date already in there
• 2) Data Set 2: No time dates in it
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Save your file
Save your file
Label a variable
Label a variable
Create a group object
Create a group object
Scatterplot: 1
Scatterplot: 1
Scatterplot: 2
Scatterplot: 2
Save your results
Save your results
Summary Statistics
Summary Statistics
Different Objects
Different Objects
Want to create a graph like this (from Federal Reserve Bank)?
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Shading
‘ls’ & ‘c’
Regression
Select Cases: 1
Select Cases: 1
Line 1: total range
Line 2: active working sample size
sample size
“if” & “@”
Select Cases: 2
Select Cases: 2
can also use ”series”
Create a new variable
Create a new variable
Thank you!
Thank you!