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Ka-fu WongUniversity of Hong Kong

An Introduction to EViews 4.1 (Student version)

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Installation

Insert the CD-ROM disc in a drive and install the program on the computer.

For most of us, accepting all defaults will work fine.

Note that you can install EViews on as many computers as you want to. However, at start, EViews will ask you to insert the CD-ROM disc.

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Starting EViews

Work Area

May be changed with Options>File Locations>Current Data Path.

Current Data Path.

Command Area

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Options>File Locations>Current Data Path

Current Data Path. May be changed with Options>File Locations>Current Data Path.

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Open the Excel file containing the data(example2.XLS)

48 undated observations4 columns (OBS, X, Y, Z)3 variables: X, Y, Z

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Enter or read data in EviewsFile > New > Workfile

1. Choose “Undated or irregular”.

2. Specify 1 and 48.

3. Click OK.

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Enter or read data in Eviews Choose Quick>Empty Group(Edit Series)

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Enter or read data in Eviews Key in data

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Enter or read data in Eviews Copy the data from Excel (A2:D49 together) to the Workfile

Default series names

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Renaming the seriesFirst minimize the data sheet

Highlight ser01 and right click mouse, and choose rename

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Rename the series (ser01 – ser04)

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Check if the variable names has been changed

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Save data and results frequently to avoide loss of dataFile>SaveAs

Enter example0.wf1

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Scatterplot of X and Y

1. Highlight x and y

2. Quick > Graph > Scatter

3. Order the variables

4. click OK.

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Scatterplot of X and Y

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Scatterplot of X and YUse options to adjust the appearance

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Scatterplot of X and YUse AddText to adjust the appearance

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Use Lines/Shading to adjust the appearance

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Scatter plot after some formatting

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Alternative way to do scatterplot of X and Y1. Put X and Y in a group called gxygroup gxy X Y

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Alternative way to do scatterplot of X and Y2. Generate scatter plot using the data group of gxyfreeze(Figure21) gxy.scat

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Alternative way to do scatterplot of X and YDouble click figure21 to view the plot

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Scatter plot of X and Y

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Generate a scatter plus a linear fitfreeze(Figure22) gxy.linefit

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Double click figure22 to view the plot

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Scatter plot with linear fit

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Group data for scatter plotgroup gzy z y

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Create scatter plot, save in Figure23freeze(Figure23) gzy.linefit

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Another scatter plot (data group gzy) with linear fit

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Run linear regression and save the results in tableA1equation tableA1.ls y c x z (Y = c + b0X + b1Z)

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Regression results (tablea1)

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Save all the results and dataFile > SaveAs

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Next time, we can open the workfileFile > Open > workfile

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We can continue to work on the data and plots…

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End

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Plot residuals and fitted values

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Plot residuals and fitted values