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What is the command for lagging an independent variable that I also take the logarithm on?
For example: If have the variable pbeef, when estimating an equation, do i write log(pbeef(-1)) or how should it be written?

also, when Writing log(pbeef) is natural or base ten logarithms used?

Oh, ok. Yes, paste as Eviews workfile. Is there any simple way I can get around that? It's really not much data.

Yeah, sure
Oh, also I'm not actually using excel but open office Calc. Dont know if it has anything to do with it.

The Year kolumn is the only one beeing interpreted as a numbers series.

I'm trying to import data from an excel file. My problem is that Eviews seems to be unwilling to handle my series containing decimals as number series. If change the default settings so that also these series are imorted as number series (instead of character series) the decimal sign is removed from...