EVIEWS
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www.eviews.comEViews is a product of the staff of Quantitative Micro Software. The immediate predecesor of EViews, MicroTSP, was developed by David Lilien, and first released in 1981 for the Apple II personal computer. MicroTSP was subsequently rewritten for IBM compatible PCs, taking direct advantage of the latter platform's increased memory and superior graphical support. All development of MicroTSP ended in 1990 and work began on an all new program for the Windows operating system. The result of this project, EViews, was released in early 1994. Written in C++ and designed from the ground-up to use modern GUI interfaces. EViews provides an integrated environment for estimation and forecasting, large-scale model construction and solution, database management, and presentation of results. Currently available for systems running 32-bit versions of Windows, EViews features an innovative, Windows-based, object-oriented user-interface, as well as traditional command line and programming interfaces.
EViews provides extensive support for estimation and forecasting of linear and nonlinear single and multiple equation econometric models. While the original emphasis of the program was on standard econometric and time series methods such as OLS, TSLS, ARMAX, GMM, VARs, ARCH and Kalman filtering, EViews also supports a wide range of limited dependent variable and panel data estimators, as well as the ability to estimate user-specified maximum likelihood models. In addition, EViews includes a variety of tools for general statistical analysis.
Sophisticated model analysis and simulation tools allow for the construction of and solution of linear and nonlinear models with virtually no limits on the number of equations (save those imposed by Windows' 2GB limit on a single application). These models may be solved using dynamic or static methods, and optionally, stochastic simulation and forward solution. All of EViews' estimation and simulation tools are tied into presentation quality graphics and table construction tools which allow users to quickly and easily summarize results and to exchange them with other Windows programs.
EViews reads and writes ASCII, MDB (Access), TSD, XLS and WKx files, as well as the native files of many econometrics and statistics packages, including PC-Give, RATS, SAS, SPSS, STATA and TSP. EViews also provides access to FAME, Haver Analytics, and DRI-Pro databases. ODBC support is available in EViews 5.