EViews Illustrated
for Version 6
Richard Startz
University of Washington
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EViews Illustrated
for Version 6
Copyright © 2007 Quantitative Micro Software, LLC
All Rights Reserved
Printed in the United States of America
Disclaimer
The author and Quantitative Micro Software assume no responsibility for any errors that
may appear in this book or the EViews program. The user assumes all responsibility for the
selection of the program to achieve intended results, and for the installation, use, and
results obtained from the program.
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trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. PostScript is a trademark of Adobe Corporation. Pro-
fessional Organization of English Majors is a trademark of Garrison Keillor. All other prod-
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respective companies.
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web: www.eviews.com
First edition: 2007
Editor: Meredith Startz
Index: Palmer Publishing Services
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Chapter 2. EViews—Meet Data
When you embark on an econometric journey, your first step will be to bring your data into
EViews. In this chapter we talk about a variety of methods for getting this journey started on
the right foot.
Unlike the blank piece of paper that appears (metaphorically speaking) when you fire up a
word processor or the empty spreadsheet provided by a spreadsheet program, the basic
EViews document—the workfile—requires just a little bit of structuring information. We
begin by talking about how to set up a workfile. Next we turn to manual entry, typing data
by hand. While typing data is sometimes necessary, it’s awf