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ok, just uploaded a new version that lets you select which seasonal terms to search within

Unfortunately EViews won't let you add enough ARMA terms to make going up to 12 possible.

I suppose an alternative approach would be to let you specify which SAR/SMA terms you want to search between, rather than going all the way up to a maximum.

I'll contemplate it.

What have you tried and how did it not work?

This thread is about the TSNorm add-in that computes the Bai and Ng (2005, JBES) normality, skewness and kurtosis tests for time-series data.

Out of interest, when EViews disappeared, did any error message pop up, or was it just a complete vanishing?

No, you are absolutely correct, EViews should never crash like that, even if the user has made a mistake. Unfortunately it can be hard for us to fix those crashes without replicatability. Obviously one thing I can suggest is that you keep your copy of EViews 7 as up to date as possible, we fix bugs ...

Sorry, didn't realise you wanted to constrain the variance regressors. That can't be done.

Could you email me (support@eviews.com) your workfile and your EViews serial number?

Just so I'm clear - you were running a program you had written yourself, then you ran the add-in on a workfile, and EViews crashed?

Had you run your program a few times where it had stopped because of an error?

Also, if you haven't already done so you should read the panel data guide:
viewtopic.php?f=7&t=74

I'm using my phone, so can't give you a full answer. However, I can give you a few clues. Once your workfile is setup as a panel you don't need to worry about lags, even if you're unbalanced - EViews will know how to handle it properly. You also don't need to worry about filling in NAs in Excel. EVi...

Or, just use the mode=overwrite option on the freeze command.