EViews is a statistical package for

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, used mainly for time-series oriented econometric analysis. It is developed by Quantitative Micro Software (QMS), now a part of IHS. Version 1.0 was released in March 1994, and replaced MicroTSP. The TSP software and programming language had been originally developed by Robert Hall in 1965. The current version of EViews is 12, released in November 2020.

Features

EViews can be used for general statistical analysis and econometric analyses, such as cross-section and panel data analysis and

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estimation and forecasting. EViews combines

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and relational database technology with the traditional tasks found in statistical software, and uses a Windows GUI. This is combined with a

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which displays limited object orientation. The Enterprise edition of EViews allows access to 3rd party time series data from multiple providers including: Thomson Reuters Datastream, Moody's Economy.com, Macrobond Financial, Haver Analytics, and CEIC.

Data formats

EViews relies heavily on a proprietary and undocumented file format for data storage. However, for input and output it supports numerous formats, including

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, Excel formats,

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/ SPSS, DAP/ SAS, Stata, RATS, and TSP. EViews can access ODBC databases. EViews file formats can be partially opened by gretl.

Stationarity of data

EViews helps researchers detect unit roots in their data series. Multiple unit root tests are available in the research software, including Dickey–Fuller, Phillips–Perron, Kwiatkowski–Phillips–Schmidt–Shin and Elliott, Rothenberg and Stock Point-Optimal tests.

Estimation

EViews helps researchers and professionals to estimate linear equations and

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models of

and

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with various methods. Eviews allows the user to assess econometric results easily.

References

External links

IHS EViews Home Page
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