EViews Gareth's list of useful threads and FAQs.

[EViews Gareth]

Below you'll find a list of the threads on this forum that I think are the most useful and/or are questions asked the most. This list will be updated as I think of new items, so be sure to check back often.

General

• Hot-keys

Data entry and manipulation

• How to enter data into a panel workfile
  
• Panel or Pool? - a description on how panels and pools work, and the differences between them.
  
• Frequency Conversion
  
• Importing hourly data from a file with hour numbers
• Dummy variables

Estimation

• ARMA estimation and Forecast - how EViews estimates and forecasts simple ARMA models, with an Excel example.
• Multivariate GARCH-M (and other non-built in types)
• A simple program that does automatic ARMA selection
• Threshold AR Models
• Dummy variables
• Constrained estimation

Programming

• Gareth's Programming Guide
• Retrieving/Storing test statistics / output from objects
• Using if conditions on series
• A simple program that does automatic ARMA selection
• A simple rolling regression program
• String arguments to subroutines

Modeling

• Jean Louis Brillet's excellent free book on modeling in EViews

[dollieda]

I am not sure if this is the right place but I have a basic question (I have the student version).

When running a OLS regression do I need to have all variables (dependent and independent) in the same format? Buy this I mean all percentages or all numeric values or can they be a mix i.e GDP growth rate(%) and total population(#), etc.?

Many thanks for any answer you can give!