Eviews Tutorial(some details in the introduction handout)

Jianguo Wang

CSSCR September 2009CSSCR September 2009

What is EviewsWhat is Eviews

• EViews is a (econometrics) software packageEViews is a (econometrics) software package that provides tools for data analysis, regression and forecastingregression, and forecasting. 

EVi h bj ( hi ) i d d i• EViews has an object (things) oriented design. Information is stored in  objects. 

Objects: things in EviewsObjects: things in Eviews

• Each object a particular area of analysisEach object a particular area of analysis.

h f bj h i d f• Each type of object has an associated set of views and procedures that can be used with h i f i i h bjthe information in that object. 

Importing Time Series DataImporting Time Series Data

• If you have a Eview workfile directly open itIf you have a Eview workfile, directly open it

f• If not

• 1) Data Set 1: suppose you have a data with date already in there

• 2) Data Set 2: No time dates in it)

Save your fileSave your file

Label a variableLabel a variable

Create a group objectCreate a group object

Scatterplot: 1Scatterplot: 1

Scatterplot: 2Scatterplot: 2

Save your resultsSave your results

Summary StatisticsSummary Statistics

Different ObjectsDifferent Objects

Want to create a graph like this (from d l k)Federal Reserve Bank)?

ShadingShading

Regression‘ls’ & ‘c’

Regression

Select Cases: 1Select Cases: 1

Line 1: total range

Line 2: active working 

sample sizesample size

Select Cases: 2“if”  &  “@” Select Cases: 2

Create a new variablecan also use 

”series” Create a new variable

Thank you!Thank you!