EViews 6.0 Illustrated
Introduction
This text book is a primer to the EViews program, filled with examples, step-by-step instructions and screen-shot images.
Written by Richard Startz, professor of Economics at the University of Washington and long-time EViews user. EViews Illustrated's 416-pages offer a step-by-step guide to the EViews program, walking you through each step from launching the program, to importing existing data and transforming the data, to data analysis, to regression estimation, forecasting, and much more.
Packed with useful discussion, hints and tips. EViews Illustrated is sure to satisfy EViews users at every level of experience.
New purchases of an EViews 6.0 software license are bundled with a printed copy of EViews Illustrated. Any organisation with a site license can purchase additional copies online here>>
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: A Quick Walk Through
Workfile: The Basic EViews Document
Viewing an Individual Series
Looking at Different Samples
Generating a New Series
Looking at a Pair of Series Together
Estimating Your First Regression in EViews
Saving Your Work
Forecasting
What's Ahead
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Chapter 2: EViews-Meet Data
The Structure of Data and the Structure of a Workfile
Creating a New Workfile
Deconstructing the Workfile
Time to Type
Identity Noncrisis
Dated Series
The Import Business
Adding Data To An Existing Workfile--Or, Being Rectangular Doesn't Mean Being Inflexible
Among the Missing
Quick Review
Appendix: Having A Good Time With Your Date
Chapter 3: Getting the Most From Least Squares
A First Regression
The Really Important Regression Results
The Pretty Important (But Not So Important as the Last Section's) Regression Results
A Multiple Regression Is Simple Too
Hypothesis Testing
Representing
What's Left After You've Gotten the MostOut of Least Squares
Quick Review
Chapter 4: Data-The Transformational Experience
Your Basic Elementary Algebra
Simple Sample Says
Data Types Plain and Fancy
Numbers and Letters
Can We Have A Date?
What Are Your Values?
Relative Exotica
Quick Review
Chapter 5: Picture This!
A Simple Soup-To-Nuts Graphing Example
A Graphic Description of the Creative Process
Picture One Series
Group Graphics
Let's Look At This From Another Angle
To Summarize
Categorical Graphs
Togetherness of the Second Sort
Quick Review and Look Ahead
Chapter 6: Intimacy With Graphic Objects
To Freeze Or Not To Freeze Redux
A Touch of Text
Shady Areas and No-Worry Lines
Templates for Success
Your Data Another Sorta Way
Give A Graph A Fair Break
Options, Options, Options
The Impact of Globalization on Intimate Graphic Activity
Quick Review?
Chapter 7: Look at Your Data
Sorting Things Out
Describing Series-Just The Facts Please
Describing Series-Picturing the Distribution
Tests On Series
Describing Groups-Just the Facts-Putting It Together
Chapter 8: Forecasting
Just Push the Button
Theory of Forecasting
Dynamic Versus Static Forecasting
Sample Forecast Samples
Facing the Unknown
Forecast Evaluation
Forecasting Beneath the Surface
Quick Review-Forecasting
Chapter 9: Page after Page After Page
Pages Are Easy To Reach
Creating New Pages
Renaming, Deleting, and Saving Pages
Multi-Page Workfiles-The Most Basic Motivation
Multiple Frequencies-Multiple Pages
Links-The Live Connection
Unlinking
Have A Match?
Matching When The Identifiers Are Really Different
Contracted Data
Expanded Data
Having Contractions
Two Hints and A GotchYa
Quick Review
Chapter 10: Prelude to Panel and Pool
Pooled or Paneled Population
Nuances
So What Are the Benefits of Using Pools and Panels?
Quick (P)review
Chapter 11: Panel-What's My Line?
What's So Nifty About Panel Data?
Setting Up Panel Data
Panel Estimation
Pretty Panel Pictures
More Panel Estimation Techniques
One Dimensional Two-Dimensional Panels
Fixed Effects With and Without the Social Contrivance of Panel Structure
Quick Review-Panel
Chapter 12: Everyone Into the Pool
Getting Your Feet Wet
Playing in the Pool-Data
Getting Out of the Pool
More Pool Estimation
Getting Data In and Out of the Pool
Quick Review-Pools
Chapter 13: Serial Correlation-Friend or Foe?
Visual Checks
Testing for Serial Correlation
More General Patterns of Serial Correlation
Correcting for Serial Correlation
Forecasting
ARMA and ARIMA Models
Quick Review
Chapter 14: A Taste of Advanced Estimation
Weighted Least Squares
Heteroskedasticity
Nonlinear Least Squares
2SLS
Generalized Method of Moments
Limited Dependent Variables
ARCH, etc
Maximum Likelihood-Rolling Your Own
System Estimation
Vector Autoregressions-VAR
Quick Review?
Chapter 15: Super Models
Your First Homework-Bam, Taken Up A Notch!
Looking At Model Solutions
More Model Information
Your Second Homework
Simulating VARs
Rich Super Models
Quick Review
Chapter 16: Get with the Program
I Want To Do It Over and Over Again
You Want To Have An Argument
Program Variables
Loopy
Other Program Controls
A Rolling Example
Quick Review
Appendix: Sample Programs
Chapter 17: Odds and Ends
How Much Data Can EViews Handle?
How Long Does It Take To Compute An Estimate?
Freeze!
A Comment On Tables
Saving Tables and Almost Tables
Unsubtle Redirection
Objects and Commands
Workfile Backups
Updates-A Small Thing
Updates-A Big Thing
Ready To Take A Break?
Help!
Odd Ending
Chapter 18: Optional Ending
Required Options
Option-al Recommendations
More Detailed Options
File Locations
Window and Font Options
Dates & Frequency Conversion
Workfile Storage Defaults
Estimation Defaults
Graphics Defaults
Spreadsheet Defaults
Alpha Truncation
Quick Review