EViews
Student Version
Today’s Workshop
• Basic grasp of how EViews manages data
• Creating Workfiles
• Importing data
• Running regressions
• Performing basic tests
• Creating/changing Series
• Working with commands
Thinking About EViews
• Workfile
Central place to keep all of your work
• Objects
– Series (Numeric, no alpha series in student version)
– Equations
– Graphs
– Groups
*Always comes with
series for a constant, c,
and residuals, resid
Workfiles
• Creating a Workfile
– File → New → Workfile
• Data Structure
Time Series → Dated/Regular → Frequency + Date Range
Cross-Sectional → Undated/Irregular → Range of observations
• Save & Name
(do not have to do this for this exercise)
• New Pages (Eviews 6)
– By clicking on the “New Page” label at the bottom of the Workfile
you can create new pages
• Select “By Frequency”
Exercise #1
• Open the Excel file EViewsLab_data.xls, we
will be working with the “Macro” sheet
• Create a new Workfile for today’s workshop
Importing Data
• Copy/Past Method
1. Open new “Empty Group”
• Quick → Empty Group
• Click on Cell 1 and press the “Up” arrow on keyboard
2. Open Excel
• Make sure variable names are one constant “String” (no spaces!)
• Troubleshoot for other problems
3. Copy Data
4. Paste into Eviews Cell 1
Exercise #2
• Import data Series from Excel sheet 1: Macro
Importing Data
• Import Directly
1. Count the number of variables and CLOSE Excel file
2. Proc →Import →Read Text-Locus-File
3. Browse for Excel file
4.
Exercise #3
• Create a new page in the Workfile for the
unstructured data in the “Micro” sheet
• Import, directly, the data from the “Micro”
sheet
Descriptive Statistics
• Group
– Stores select series together
– Object → New Object → Group → Select Series → Name
• Descriptive Statistics
– When group spreadsheet is open:
– View → Descriptive Statistics → Common Sample
→ Correlogram
Exercise #3
• Create a group for you INDEPENDENT variables
(hint: consumption is your dependent variable)
• Find the Standard Deviation for each variable
• Run a correlation matrix of independent
variables to determine if you might have
multicolinearity (hint: look if off-diagonal
absolute values are bigger than 0.5)
Regressions
• Create a new Equation
– In your Workfile:
– Object → New Object → Equation
Separated by spaces:
*Dependent variable
*Constant, c
*Independent variables
(or Group)
Type of Regression
Sample Range
Regression Tests & Fixes
Estimate: Modify
• Output Useful to Create Model
Regression
To Run Tests
Regression
Summary
This View
Coefficient
Summary
SAVE!
Statistics
• Name = Save to Workfile
Regression Tests & Fixes
• Looking at Residuals
– In Equation View:
– View → Actual, Fitted, Residual → Actual, Fitted, Residual Table
• Plotting Resid Vs. Fitted Values
– Generate fitted values
– In Equation View: “Forecast” → OK (is named “variable”f)
– In Workfile: Object → New Object → Graph
• Graph: resid “variable”f
• Options → Type → Scatter
Regression Tests & Fixes
• Heteroskedasticity
– In Equation View:
– View → Residual Tests → White Heteroskedasticity (no cross)
– Look at Chi-square value
from a table
(want a small value)
– Fix: Click on “Estimate”
• Click on “Options” → check box for “Heteroskedasticity consistent
coefficient covarariance” → OK
Regression Tests & Fixes
• Normality
– View → Residual Tests → Histogram-Normality Test
– Look at Jarque-Bera stat
– Fix: Depending on skew, you can adjust variables (ex:
square, log, etc) or add/delete variables
Regression Tests & Fixes
• Correlation & Multicolinearity
– Create Correlation Matrix:
– Quick → Group Statistics → Correlations
– Off-diagonal values should be less than 0.5
– Fix: Talk to your advisor
Exercise #4
• Plot fitted values vs. residuals
• Check for Heteroskedasticity and fix if
necessary
• Check for Multicolinearity
• Check for Normality
Changing/Creating Variables
• Edit Mode
– In Spreadsheet: Toggle “Edit+/-”
– CAREFUL! No “undo”
• Generate new variable
– In Workfile:
• Click on “Genr”
• Enter equation:
“new variable name” = equation
• Regular math function keys
• Lag: variable(-1)
Just for Fun…
• Opening a non-excel data file
– Open peacekeeping.txt
– Open Excel and open this .txt file from Excel
• Delimitate correctly
• Student Version does not use “alpha” objects (series with words)
• Select only numeric variables or change alpha variables into numeric values
– Import into EViews as before
• Import Directly: Proc →Import →Read Text-Locus-File
Commands
• Top, Left-Hand “Command Box”
• Single commands
• Batch (program)
• Syntax:
Command (Option) Argument
Commands
• Frequently Used Commands:
– show variable
– genr variable = equation
– sample n1 n2
• n1 and n2 represent the start and end of range
• Or qualifiers such that:
sample variable if >15
• Statistical Operations:
– equation name .ls(h) dependent c independent variables
– cor variables
– group variables
Help!
• For general instruction or commands:
– EViews PDFs !
– Help → Users Guide (pdf)
→ Command & Programming Reference (pdf)
All Done!
If you would like more, individual help
please see the Technical Statistical
Coordinator
