When you get a chance to check out the "beta" release of EViews 9 , you'll find lots of new features.


Many of these relate to the Eviews interface, data handling, and graphs and tables. And then (of course) there are lots of new Econometrics goodies! To summarize them, under the headings used in the documentation:
Computation
• Automatic ARIMA forecasting of a series
• Forecast evaluation and combination testing
• Forecast averaging
• VAR Forecasting

Estimation
• Autoregressive Distributed Lag regression (ARDL) with automatic lag selection
• ML and GLS ARMA estimation
• ARFIMA models
• Pooled mean group estimation of panel data ARDL models
• Threshold regression
• New optimization engine

Testing and Diagnostics
• Unit root tests with a structural break
• Cross-section Dependence Tests
• Panel Effects Tests

Provided that you have EViews 8.1 on your machine, you can download the beta version of this latest release from http://register1.eviews.com/beta/

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Please note that the EViews 9 beta will only run on computers that already have EViews 8.1 Standard or Enterprise installed.