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EViews will use an ML estimator to estimate rho, if it isn't supplied.
An indicator series of a constant value of 1 is used if none is supplied.

https://eviews.com/help/helpintro.html# ... 23ww268576

Might want to update to the latest version.

I've been trying to replicate this, but can't. I ran you reproducer many times over a couple of hours, and no issues.

Which version/build date of EViews are you using? (Help->About EViews)

Just tried it - no crash. What's the workfile spec?

Great for umidas type stuff!

Yep, definitely a bug. We'll fix. Just if you're interested, here's some code that makes it concrete. close @wf wfcreate(page=q) q 1990 2030 series y=nrnd pagecreate(page=m) m 1990 2030 series x=nrnd pageselect q copy(c=split) m\x * smpl 1990 2020 2023 2030 equation eq1.midas(midwgt=umidas, fixedlag...

Patch is out.

Here's a stab. mode quiet close @all import(page=key) .\key.txt @freq u 1 %name = @wright(@wlookup("*"), 1) rename {%name} name %name = "name" rename series* key* %keys = @wlookup("key*") %objects = @wdelim( _ @wreplace( _ "vintage year " + %keys + " &quo...

Yeah, that’s not a bad way to do it.

The issue is that because there is no between cross-section variation (a and b are identical), when you stack, EViews does the "smart" thing in realising you don't need two different value series, so it condenses down to a single series, called value. Then when you do the tidyup step, you ...

Are you still having issues with the first case (or the second)? I took a look, but think I need more information on what you're trying to do. I put a stop right before your "attempt 1", just to load the two pages and do the renames. But after that I can't see what you're trying to accompl...

Yes, you cannot redeclare the link if it already exists. We'll take a look to see if we can improve that behaviour.

In the meantime, yes, you'd have to delete it first.

You mean determine what it is currently set to? No, unfortunately not.

@dateval usually just figures it out without needing a format

No, it is a global setting in EViews.



I think there's probably an easy way to do what you want, but I don't understand, yet, what you're trying to do.