LIKELIHOOD

[ADNL]

Hello,

How is a likelihood estimation conducted with EViews (8)? I have a to do a regression where I have a dependent variable which is a number. And I want to know how what factors affect this number (increase/decrease). It is about the amount of Banks and their effect on Economic growth. So my dependent variable is the amount of banks and the explanatory variables are GDP, FDI and EDUCATION.

What is a best way to do a regression in EViews?

[ADNL]

And also, what is the best to orden my data for this in EViews?

[EViews Glenn]

Your questions are a bit vague. Do you want to do regression? Or some sort of likelihood estimation? And if the latter, what kind of estimation?

[ADNL]

I want to a likelihood estimation, but I am not sure which model(s) are the best to use for this.

And for the second question: I have my data on an excel sheet in columns, and ordenend vertically and not horizontally. So like this:

GDP FDI
AFG 1990 51 13
AFG 1991 72 12
AFG 1993 61 14
ALB 1990 82 14
ALB 1991 93 15
ALB 1992 52 13


I am not sure if this works for the best in EViews. That was my question.

Thank you in advance

[startz]

Hello,

How is a likelihood estimation conducted with EViews (8)? I have a to do a regression where I have a dependent variable which is a number. And I want to know how what factors affect this number (increase/decrease). It is about the amount of Banks and their effect on Economic growth. So my dependent variable is the amount of banks and the explanatory variables are GDP, FDI and EDUCATION.

What is a best way to do a regression in EViews?

The best way to do a regression in EViews is with the command LS.

However, a regression uses the explanatory variables to explain the dependent variables and you've said you want to have the number of banks cause an effect on economic growth. You might want to read up some on regressions in general before worrying about the exact EViews commands.