EViews is a
statistical package
Statistical software are specialized computer programs for analysis in statistics and econometrics.
Open-source
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for
Windows
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, used mainly for time-series oriented
econometric analysis
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. It is developed by Quantitative Micro Software (QMS), now a part of
IHS
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. 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
time series
In mathematics, a time series is a series of data points indexed (or listed or graphed) in time order. Most commonly, a time series is a sequence taken at successive equally spaced points in time. Thus it is a sequence of discrete-time data. Exa ...
estimation and forecasting.
EViews combines
spreadsheet
A spreadsheet is a computer application for computation, organization, analysis and storage of data in tabular form. Spreadsheets were developed as computerized analogs of paper accounting worksheets. The program operates on data entered in cel ...
and relational database technology with the traditional tasks found in statistical software, and uses a Windows
GUI
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. This is combined with a
programming language
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The description of a programming ...
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
databank format {{confusing, date=March 2009
A file format is a procedure to encode information for storage in a computer file.
The databank format is an ASCII file format for time series econometric analysis. The format was popularized by MicroTSP.
The databank ...
,
Excel formats,
PSPP
PSPP is a free software application for analysis of sampled data, intended as a free alternative for IBM SPSS Statistics. It has a graphical user interface and conventional command-line interface. It is written in C and uses GNU Scientific Lib ...
/
SPSS
SPSS Statistics is a statistical software suite developed by IBM for data management, advanced analytics, multivariate analysis, business intelligence, and criminal investigation. Long produced by SPSS Inc., it was acquired by IBM in 2009. C ...
,
DAP
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SAS
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,
Stata
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,
RATS
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, and TSP. EViews can access
ODBC
In computing, Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) is a standard application programming interface (API) for accessing database management systems (DBMS). The designers of ODBC aimed to make it independent of database systems and operating systems. An ...
databases. EViews file formats can be partially opened by
gretl
gretl is an open-source statistical package, mainly for econometrics. The name is an acronym for ''G''nu ''R''egression, ''E''conometrics and ''T''ime-series ''L''ibrary.
It has both a graphical user interface (GUI) and a command-line interfa ...
.
Stationarity of data
EViews helps researchers detect unit roots in their data series. Multiple
unit root test
In statistics, a unit root test tests whether a time series variable is non-stationary and possesses a unit root. The null hypothesis is generally defined as the presence of a unit root and the alternative hypothesis is either Stationary process, s ...
s 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
In mathematics, a linear equation is an equation that may be put in the form
a_1x_1+\ldots+a_nx_n+b=0, where x_1,\ldots,x_n are the variables (or unknowns), and b,a_1,\ldots,a_n are the coefficients, which are often real numbers. The coefficien ...
and
systems of linear equations
In mathematics, a system of linear equations (or linear system) is a collection of one or more linear equations involving the same variables.
For example,
:\begin
3x+2y-z=1\\
2x-2y+4z=-2\\
-x+\fracy-z=0
\end
is a system of three equations in the ...
models of
time series
In mathematics, a time series is a series of data points indexed (or listed or graphed) in time order. Most commonly, a time series is a sequence taken at successive equally spaced points in time. Thus it is a sequence of discrete-time data. Exa ...
and
panel data
In statistics and econometrics, panel data and longitudinal data are both multi-dimensional data set, data involving measurements over time. Panel data is a subset of longitudinal data where observations are for the same subjects each time.
Time s ...
with various methods. Eviews allows the user to assess econometric results easily.
See also
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Comparison of statistical packages
The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of statistical analysis packages.
General information
Operating system support
ANOVA
Support for various ANOVA methods
Regression
Support for various Regression an ...
*
Gretl
gretl is an open-source statistical package, mainly for econometrics. The name is an acronym for ''G''nu ''R''egression, ''E''conometrics and ''T''ime-series ''L''ibrary.
It has both a graphical user interface (GUI) and a command-line interfa ...
*
GNU Octave
GNU Octave is a high-level programming language primarily intended for scientific computing and numerical computation. Octave helps in solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically, and for performing other numerical experiments using a langu ...
*
Matlab
MATLAB (an abbreviation of "MATrix LABoratory") is a proprietary multi-paradigm programming language and numeric computing environment developed by MathWorks. MATLAB allows matrix manipulations, plotting of functions and data, implementation ...
*
R
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SAS
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* ''SAS'' (novel series), a French book series by Gérard de Villiers
* ''Shimmer and Shine'', an American animated children's television series
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*
Scilab
Scilab is a free and open-source, cross-platform numerical computational package and a high-level, numerically oriented programming language. It can be used for signal processing, statistical analysis, image enhancement, fluid dynamics simulat ...
*
SPSS
SPSS Statistics is a statistical software suite developed by IBM for data management, advanced analytics, multivariate analysis, business intelligence, and criminal investigation. Long produced by SPSS Inc., it was acquired by IBM in 2009. C ...
*
Stata
Stata (, , alternatively , occasionally stylized as STATA) is a general-purpose statistical software package developed by StataCorp for data manipulation, visualization, statistics, and automated reporting. It is used by researchers in many fie ...
References
Further reading
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External links
IHS EViews Home Page
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