EViews
{{Short description|Statistical package}}
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{{Infobox software
| name = EViews
| logo = EViews logo.svg
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| developer = S&P Global
| latest release version = 14
| latest release date = {{Start date and age|2024|06|25}}
| operating system = Windows 7 or newer
| genre = Econometrics software
| license = Proprietary
| website = {{Official URL}}
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EViews is a statistical package for Windows, used mainly for time-series oriented econometric analysis.{{Cite web |title=A Short Introduction to Eviews |url=https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~fdiebold/Teaching221/EviewsIntroduction.pdf}} It is developed by Quantitative Micro Software (QMS), now a part of IHS. Version 1.0 was released in March 1994, and replaced MicroTSP.{{cite book |first=James L. |last=Doti |first2=Esmael |last2=Adibi |title=Econometric Analysis with MicroTSP Student Software: An Applications Approach |location=Englewood Cliffs, NJ |publisher=Prentice Hall |year=1987 |isbn=0-13-224114-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o13uAAAAMAAJ}} The TSP software and programming language had been originally developed by Robert Hall in 1965. The current version of EViews is 14, released in June 2024.
Features
EViews can be used for general statistical analysis and econometric analyses, such as cross-section and panel data analysis and time series estimation and forecasting.{{Cite web |date=2023-02-03 |title=Central African Republic: Government officials receive training in macroeconomic modelling and forecasting |url=https://www.afdb.org/en/news-and-events/central-african-republic-government-officials-receive-training-macroeconomic-modelling-and-forecasting-58752 |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=African Development Bank Group |language=en}}
EViews combines spreadsheet and relational database technology with the traditional tasks found in statistical software, and uses a Windows GUI. This is combined with a programming language which displays limited object orientation.
EViews allows access to 3rd party time series data from multiple providers including:{{cite web |title=EViews |url=https://eviews.com/EViews14/ThirdParty.html |access-date=17 June 2016}} Thomson Reuters Datastream, Moody's Economy.com, Macrobond Financial,{{cite web |title=Macrobond product overview |url=https://www.macrobond.com/index.php/products |access-date=17 June 2016}} Haver Analytics,{{cite web |title=Haver Analytics Third Party Software Review |url=http://haver.com/software.html |access-date=2 January 2018}} 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 databank format, Excel formats, PSPP/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 systems of linear equations models of time series and panel data with various methods. Eviews allows the user to assess econometric results easily.{{cite web |title=Memento on EViews Output |url=http://www.jonathanbenchimol.com/data/teaching/eviews-training/memento.pdf |access-date=17 June 2016}}
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See also
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Further reading
- {{cite book |first=I. Gusti Ngurah |last=Agung |title=Time Series Data Analysis Using EViews |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |year=2011 |isbn=978-1-118-17630-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c-a7vrZXrpIC}}
- {{cite book |first=William E. |last=Griffiths |first2=R. Carter |last2=Hill |first3=Guay C. |last3=Lim |title=Using EViews for Principles of Econometrics |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |edition=Fourth |year=2011 |isbn=978-1-118-03207-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zkc-YgEACAAJ}}
- {{cite book |first=Ben |last=Vogelvang |title=Econometrics: Theory and Applications with EViews |publisher=Pearson Education |year=2005 |isbn=0-273-68374-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FgiTj5vlp5gC}}