EViews 7.2 Standard
Introduction
EViews 7 offers academic researchers, corporations, government agencies, and students access to powerful statistical, forecasting, and modeling tools through an innovative, easy-to-use object-oriented interface.
EViews brings modern windowing and object-based techniques to statistical, econometric, and simulation software.
At the heart of the innovative EViews interface is the concept of an object. Series, equations, and systems are just a few examples of objects. Each object has its own window, menus, procedures, and views of its data. Most statistical procedures are simply alternate views of the object.
For example, a menu choice from a series window changes the display between a spreadsheet, various graph views, descriptive statistics and tests, tabulations, correlograms, unit root, and independence and variance ratio tests.
Similarly, an equation window allows you to switch between a display of the equation specification, basic estimation results, the coefficient covariance matrix, actual-fitted-residual graphs and tables, forecast graphs and evaluations, and a wide range of diagnostic and hypothesis tests.
EViews also incorporates the best of modern spreadsheet and relational database technology by offering sophisticated linking tools that allows you to define relationships between objects and data sources. Series objects, for example, may be linked by formula to data in other series, to match merged or frequency converted data from alternate data sets, or to external databases. When defined in this fashion, the linked series dynamically update whenever the underlying data change. Similarly, an EViews model simulation object can be linked to equation or system objects so that the model updates automatically when the underlying equation or system is re-specified or re-estimated.
Unlike programs that support viewing only one window or one set of results at a time, EViews allows simultaneous display of multiple objects and output, each in its own window. This true multiple window support makes it easy to perform side-by-side comparisons of series plots, hypothesis tests, equation results, and model forecasts developed under alternative assumptions. Couple this with strong Windows integration, including drag-and-drop file import for over twenty popular file formats and copy-and-paste export of presentation quality graphs and tables, and you have a program that redefines our expectations of what econometric and statistical software can offer.