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EViews

EViews is a statistical package for Windows and MacOS, used mainly for time-series oriented econometric analysis. It is developed by Quantitative Micro Software (QMS), now a part of IHS. Version 1.0 was released in March 1994, and replaced MicroTSP. The TSP software and programming language had been originally developed by Robert Hall in 1965. The current version of EViews is 14, released in June 2024.

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EViews
DevelopersS&P Global
Stable release
14 / June 25, 2024 (2024-06-25)
Operating systemWindows 7 or newer
TypeEconometrics software
LicenseProprietary
Websiteeviews.com Edit this at Wikidata

EViews is a statistical package for Windows and MacOS, used mainly for time-series oriented econometric analysis.1 It is developed by Quantitative Micro Software (QMS), now a part of IHS. Version 1.0 was released in March 1994, and replaced MicroTSP.2 The TSP software and programming language had been originally developed by Robert Hall in 1965. The current version of EViews is 14, released in June 2024.

Features

EViews can be used for general statistical analysis and econometric analyses, such as cross-section and panel data analysis and time series estimation and forecasting.3

EViews combines spreadsheet and relational database technology with the traditional tasks found in statistical software, and uses a Windows GUI. This is combined with a programming language which displays limited object orientation.

EViews allows access to 3rd party time series data from multiple providers including:4 Thomson Reuters Datastream, Moody's Economy.com, Macrobond Financial,5 Haver Analytics,6 and CEIC.

Data formats

EViews relies heavily on a proprietary and undocumented file format for data storage. However, for input and output it supports numerous formats, including databank format, Excel formats, PSPP/SPSS, DAP/SAS, Stata, RATS, and TSP. EViews can access ODBC databases. EViews file formats can be partially opened by gretl.

Stationarity of data

EViews helps researchers detect unit roots in their data series. Multiple unit root tests are available in the research software, including Dickey–Fuller, Phillips–Perron, Kwiatkowski–Phillips–Schmidt–Shin and Elliott, Rothenberg and Stock Point-Optimal tests.

Estimation

EViews helps researchers and professionals to estimate linear equations and systems of linear equations models of time series and panel data with various methods. Eviews allows the user to assess econometric results easily.7

Version

Version Release date
1 March 1994
5 20048
5.1 February 20059
6 March 200710
7 December 200911
8 February 201312
8.1 September 201413
9 March 201514
9.5 March 201615
10 June 201716
10+ October 20171718
11 April 201919
12 November 202020
13 August 20222122
14 June 202423
See also

See also

References

References

  1. "A Short Introduction to Eviews" (PDF).
  2. Doti, James L.; Adibi, Esmael (1987). Econometric Analysis with MicroTSP Student Software: An Applications Approach. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-224114-5.
  3. "Central African Republic: Government officials receive training in macroeconomic modelling and forecasting". African Development Bank Group. February 3, 2023. Retrieved April 14, 2025.
  4. "EViews". Retrieved June 17, 2016.
  5. "Macrobond product overview". Archived from the original on August 19, 2016. Retrieved June 17, 2016.
  6. "Haver Analytics Third Party Software Review". Retrieved January 2, 2018.
  7. "Memento on EViews Output" (PDF). Retrieved June 17, 2016.
  8. McKenzie, C. R.; Takaoka, Sumiko (2007). "EViews 5.1". Journal of Applied Econometrics. 22 (6): 1145–1152. ISSN 0883-7252.
  9. "History of EViews - EViews.com". forums.eviews.com. Retrieved November 9, 2024.
  10. "Announcing EViews 6". Quantec. Retrieved November 9, 2024.
  11. "EViews 7 released". Quantec. Retrieved November 9, 2024.
  12. EViews8の販売を開始いたしました。(2013/2)
  13. "EViews 8.1 released". Quantec. Retrieved November 9, 2024.
  14. "EViews 9 released". Quantec. Retrieved November 9, 2024.
  15. "EViews 9.5 released". Quantec. Retrieved November 9, 2024.
  16. "EViews 10 released". Quantec. Retrieved November 9, 2024.
  17. IHSEViews. "10+ New Features Added to EViews 10". Retrieved November 9, 2024.
  18. "EViews 10+ adds new features to EViews 10". Quantec. Retrieved November 9, 2024.
  19. "EViews 11 released". Quantec. Retrieved November 9, 2024.
  20. "EViews 12 released". Quantec. Retrieved November 9, 2024.
  21. IHSEViews. "EViews 13 is Released!". Retrieved November 9, 2024.
  22. "EViews 13 released". Quantec. Retrieved November 9, 2024.
  23. "EViews 14 released". Quantec. Retrieved November 9, 2024.
Further reading

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