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BASIC EVIEWS COMMANDS

The following are some basic EViews commands and operations. More details can be found in the PDF users
guides and manuals available from the EViews help menu, and from Griffiths, W.E., Hill, R.C. and Lim, G.C
(2008) Using EViews for Principles of Econometrics, New Jersey: John Wiley and Sons. Students who are
unfamiliar with menu-driven statistical software packages are advised to start by selecting “EViews Illustrated –
An EViews Primer” from the EViews help menu.

Managing Workfiles

File → New → Workfile to create an empty workfile:

File → Import → Read Text-Lotus-Excel File
File → Open → Foreign Data as Workfile
File → Open → EViews Workfile
File → Save
File → Save As
to import text, ASCII or EXCEL data into an empty workfile
to import EXCEL data when the first row contains variable names
to open an existing workfile
to save a pre-existing workfile
to save a newly-created workfile

Working With Data

Quick → Series Statistics
Quick → Group Statistics
Quick → Generate Series
Quick → Graph
Quick → Estimate Equation
to obtain histograms and descriptive statistics for a single variable
to obtain descriptive statistics for a group of variables
to create a new variable (series)
to obtain line or bar graphs, scatter plots and pie charts
to run regressions

Operators

+ add
- subtract
* multiply
/ divide
^ raise to the power
> greater than
< less than
= equal to
<> not equal to
<= less than or equal to
>= greater than or equal to

Basic Mathematical Functions

@abs(x), abs(x) absolute value, |x|

@exp(x), exp(x) exponential, ex
@fact(x) factorial, x!
@inv(x) reciprocal, 1/x
@log(x), log(x) natural logarithm, loge(x)
@log10(x) base-10 logarithm, log10(x)
@roundx) round to the nearest integer
@sqrt(x), sqrtx) square root