EViews 4.1 Student Version

Quantitative Micro Software is proud to announce the availability of EViews 4.1 Student Version. Based on the best-selling EViews 4.1, the EViews Student Version is a lowcost alternative to the full version of EViews that is specially designed for classroom instructional settings where the full power of EViews is not required.

EViews 4.1 Student Version provides students with access to the innovative object-oriented user interface of EViews 4.1. As always, EViews? built-in procedures are only a mouse click away and provide the tools most frequently used in practical econometric and forecasting work.

With EViews, you may use a wide range of statistical and graphical techniques without having to learn complicated command syntax or navigate through layers and layers of menus. Your students need not concern themselves with the complexities of software and can instead concentrate on the substance of the coursework. For example, students can easily switch between a display of their equation specification, basic estimation results, the coefficient covariance matrix, actual-fitted-residual graphs and tables, forecast graphs and evaluations, and extensive diagnostic and hypothesis tests.

We are confident that EViews Student Version will prove to be an ideal solution to all of your instructional and academic needs.

Powerful, Easy-to-Use, Software

While it does have some capacity and feature limiations, EViews Student Version provides most of the capabilities of our Standard Version.

A Modern Interface

EViews Student Version uses the same easy-to-use Windows interface as our Standard Version. It뭩 all there...Full mouse support takes advantage of all of the features of a modern, graphical user interface. Context sensitive menus and dialogs guide you through your analysis, showing you the different views and procedures available for analyzing your data, and where necessary, prompting you for additional input. Multiple window support allows you to examine various aspects of your data or results; for example, two sets of equation results, or both the coefficient estimates and graphs of forecasted values.

You can also use the Windows clipboard to transfer data and results between EViews and other Windows applications. Highlight your Microsoft Excel data and copy-and-paste it directly into EViews. Copy-and-paste your regression results to Microsoft Word, and EViews will use create a formated table of results in Word. Of course if you don뭪 like cut-and-paste, EViews supports direct file access to Lotus WKS, WK1, and WK3 files, Microsoft Excel XLS files, and Microsoft Windows Metafiles).

Need help? EViews provides a full Windows-style help system containing almost all of our printed documentation. Use Windows Help뭩 indexing and search capabilities to find the information you need to get the job done.

Basic Statistics

EViews provides sophisticated tools for computing descriptive statistics and for performing hypothesis tests (including simple one-way ANOVA).

Graphical presentations of histograms, cumulative distribution, survivor, and quantile functions allow you to characterize the distribution of your data. Quantile-quantile plots allow you to compare your data to empirical and theoretical distributions. EViews also calculates kernel density estimates, and produces scatterplots with curve fitting using ordinary, transformation, kernel, and nearest neighbor regression.

Do you work with time series data? EViews built-in unit root tests (ADF and Phillips-Perron), cointegration tests, causality tests, and tools for computing autocorrelation and partial autocorrelation functions, Q-statistics, and cross-correlation functions, let you explore the time series properties of your data.

Estimation, Evaluation and Forecasting

EViews Student Version includes basic estimators such as ordinary least squares (multiple regression), two-stage and nonlinear least squares. You can perform weighted estimation, and can add polynomial lag structures on any number of independent variables with these specifications. EViews Student Version also provides built-in tools for estimating binary probit and logit models.

EViews automatically displays appropriate summary statistics for most specifications: coefficients, t-statistics, standard errors (ordinary, White, or Newey-West) and covariances, F-Statistic with probability, R-square, R-square adjusted for degrees of freedom, sum-of-squared residuals and standard error of the regression, log-likelihood, Durbin-Watson statistic, Akaike and Schwarz Information Criteria.

EViews advanced estimators allow you to estimate sophisticated time series models involving autoregressive and moving average errors (ARMA), using the backcasting method of Box and Jenkins, or conditional least squares. Seasonal autoregressive and seasonal moving average specifications may also be estimated.

Once your specification is estimated, EViews provides powerful evaluation, testing and forecasting tools. You can easily compute Wald and likelihood ratio tests for coefficient restrictions and omitted or redundant variables; correlogram, Q-statistic and normality tests for residuals; serial correlation LM and Durbin-Watson, ARCH LM, White Heteroskedasticity, Chow Forecast and breakpoint, Ramsey RESET, and (for linear models only) recursive least squares, recursive residual, CUSUM, CUSUM of squares, One-step and N- forecast tests.

Need to perform a forecast? Built-in procedures make constructing forecasts a snap. Use single, double, or Holt-Winters exponential smoothing to create your forecast. If you prefer, you can use the results from a previously estimated equation. Simply specify the forecast interval, whether you want dynamic or static forecasts, and EViews will do the rest.

Now on CD-ROM!

Student Version package includes a 66-page Student Version manual (featuring an extended case study), as well as a CD-ROM disc containing the software, sample data, a full Windows Help System, and PDF files containing documentation for both the Student and Standard Versions of EViews 4.1. Both the Windows Help System and the PDF files are searchable and hypertext linked for quick access to program documentation.

Student Version Limitations

The Student Version is a restricted version of EViews 4.1 that differs from the Standard Version along two primary dimensions. The most important difference between the two versions is in the size of projects that may be undertaken. The Student Version limits each series to 1,500 observations, and limits the total number of data points (number of series times observations per series) to 12,000. In addition, there is a limit of 60 objects (series, equations, graphs, etc.) in each workfile.

Second, the Student Version lacks EViews? more advanced analytical and programming features. The following summarizes the basic feature differences between the Standard Version of EViews 4.1, and the Student Version:

X-11 and X12-ARIMA seasonal adjustment and Tramo/Seats are not supported in the Student Version. Seasonal adjustment by the ratio-to-moving average and difference-from-moving average techniques are included in the Student Version. All other standard EViews 4.1 tools for ARIMA modeling are included.

Generalized Method of Moments (GMM), State Space estimation, ARCH estimation and forecasting, ordered discrete choice, count, censored/truncated, and user-supposed maximum likelihood estimation are not supported in the Student Version. Binary estimation (probit, logit, gompit) is included.

Estimation of systems of equations is not supported. (However, standard VAR estimation is supported.)

While EViews 4.1 Student Version can read from and write to the standard EViews workfile, it provides only read access to EViews advanced databases. You cannot create new databases or write to existing databases with the Student Version. Furthermore, access to the DRI Basic Economics Database and Haver databases is not supported.

Support for EViews programming and batch processing is not provided. The Student Version is limited to interactive use.

Matrix Operations are not supported. The standard version of EViews 4.1 provides tools for matrix algebra and manipulation that are not available in the Student Version.

System Requirements

EViews 4.1 Student Version is a 32-bit program that requires and takes full advantage of the new features of Windows 95, 98, and Windows NT 4.0 or later. Since EViews 4.1 Student Version is distributed on CD-ROM, you will need access to a CD-ROM drive to install and run the software.

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