EViews 8

EViews offers academic researchers, corporations, government agencies, and students access to powerful statistical, forecasting, and modelling tools through an innovative, easy-to-use object-oriented interface.

EViews blends the best of modern software technology with cutting edge features. The result is a state-of-the art program that offers unprecedented power within a flexible, easy-to-use interface.

Explore the world of EViews and discover why its the worldwide leader in Windows-based econometric software and the choice of those who demand the very best.

 

What’s new in EViews 8?

EViews 8 features a wide range of exciting changes and improvements. The following is an overview of the most important new features in Version 8.

Performance

• 64-bit version for much larger data sets.

EViews Interface

• Enhanced dialog edit fields.
• Improved workfile details view.
• Workfile compare allowing quick comparison of data in different workfiles.
• Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) support, allowing linking of your EViews output in other packages such as Microsoft Excel and Word.

Data Handling

• Powerful new spreadsheet editing tools that allow easy manipulation of multiple cells at once.
• Group comparison tools to compare data across multiple series.
• Enhanced dated data tables, including full command line support.
• Support for writing to existing Excel files, and writing Excel .XLSX files.
• Transposed foreign data reading.
• Custom object attributes.

Graphs, Tables and Spools

• New slider bar for quickly changing the visible sample in a graph window.
• Custom lines and arrows can be drawn in graphs using the mouse.
• User defined fit lines on scatter plots.
• Graphs, tables, and spools can now be saved in PDF format. Additionally, tables may be saved as Enhanced Metafiles (.emf).

Computation

• Error-Trend-Seasonal exponential smoothing (Hyndman et al., 2002 and Hyndman et al., 2008).
• Census X-13.
• Panel series covariances.
• Panel series principle components.

Estimation

• Switching regression (both exogenous and Markov).
• Bayesian Vector Autoregression (BVARs).
• Robust least squares.
• Breakpoint regression.
• Heckman selection models.
• Panel cointegration estimation.
• User-defined optimization.

Testing and Diagnostics

• Multiple breakpoing testing (including Bai-Perron tests).
• Panel serial correlation tests.
• Panel causality tests.
• Heteroskedasticity and autocorrelation consistent (HAC) covariances for GLM models.
• Automatic computation of a robust Wald statistic for non-intercept coefficients in models estimated with
• White or HAC covariances.

Models

• Improved model data editing.
• Solution comparison tools.
• Enhanced command line manipulation of models.

Programming Support

• User-defined objects allowing even greater customization of EViews.
• Program editor and execution enhancements.
• Program file editor supports quick multi-line commenting.
• New functions and commands.