EViews 7 for WindowsEViews 7 offers academic researchers, corporations, government agencies, and students access to powerful statistical, forecasting, and modeling tools through an innovative, easy-to-use object-oriented interface.
EViews blends the best of modern software technology with cutting edge features. The result is a state-of-the art program that offers unprecedented power within a flexible, easy-to-use interface.
Explore the world of EViews and discover why it's the worldwide leader in Windows-based econometric software and the choice of those who demand the very best.

• EViews 7 Overview
• EViews 7 Features List
• What's New in EViews 7?
• EViews 7 System Requirements
• EViews 7 Capacity

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EViews 7 OverviewA combination of power and ease-of-use make EViews 7 the ideal package for anyone working with time series, cross-section, or longitudinal data. With EViews, you can quickly and efficiently manage your data, perform econometric and statistical analysis, generate forecasts or model simulations, and produce high quality graphs and tables for publication or inclusion in other applications.
Featuring an innovative graphical object-oriented user-interface and a sophisticated analysis engine, EViews blends the best of modern software technology with the features you’ve always wanted. The result is a state-of-the art program that offers unprecedented power within a flexible, easy-to-use interface.
Find out for yourself why EViews is the worldwide leader in Windows-based econometric software and the choice of those who demand the very best.

• An Intuitive, Easy-to-Use Interface
• Powerful Analytic Tools
• Sophisticated Data Management
• Presentation Quality Output
• Traditional Command Line and Programming Interface

What's New in EViews 7EViews 7 features a wide range of exciting changes and improvements. The following is an overview of the most important new features in Version 7.
Performance

• Optimized routines for faster computation.
• Multi-processor/core support with custom user settings.

EViews Interface

• "Theme" support lets you customize the appearance of your EViews windows.
• Enhanced drag-and-drop support throughout the program.
• Improved command entry interface with enhanced command editing and recall, and undocking of the command window.
• Improved graph options interface.
• Updated global options interface.
• Auto-update from the web ensures that your copy of EViews 7 is always up-to-date.
• New compiled HTML based help system.

Data Handling

• New workfile data frequencies: high-frequency (Intraday) data, with full support for hours, minutes, and seconds frequencies, multi-year, bimonthly, fortnight, 10-day, and daily with an arbitrary range of days of the week.
• Greatly enhanced support for strings, including new string and string vector objects, an extensive library of new functions for creating and manipulating string lists, and improved programming support.
• EViews now offers direct support for connecting to, opening, querying, and importing from the FRED® (Federal Reserve Economic Data) database.
• Support for reading Excel 2007 XLSX Files.
• Improved data import featuring more powerful command line tools for reading foreign data into an existing workfile.

Graphs

• New "live" graphs auto-update as the underlying data change.
• Improved graph options interface.
• Interactive observation info display lets you inspect labels and values associated with points on a graph.
• Improved control over formatting of dates in the observation scale/axis.
• More flexible custom observation labels for the observation scale/axis.
• Added control over date label positioning and two row labeling.
• Enhanced control over date/observation axis grid line placement.

Programming Support

• User-defined dialog functions allow you to create dialogs to interact with users.
• Programs now support message logging.
• Program file editor supports quick multi-line commenting.
• Greatly enhanced support for strings, including new string and string vector objects, an extensive library of new functions for creating and manipulating string lists, and improved programming support.
• Enhanced support for text objects.
• New object data members.
• New general information functions.

External Interfaces

• The new EViews Microsoft Excel Add-in offers a simple interface for reading data stored in EViews workfiles and databases from within Microsoft Excel.
• External programs may use the new EViews OLEDB driver to read data stored in EViews workfiles (WF1) and EViews databases (EDB).
• You may use the EViews COM automation server by creating scripts or programs that launch or control EViews, transfer data, and execute EViews commands.
• EViews COM Automation Client Support for MATLAB and R allows you to use EViews to interact with the powerful programming languages of MATLAB and R.

Econometrics and Statistics Computation

• Interpolation tools (Linear, Log-linear, Catmul-Rom Spline, Cardinal Spline) are now offered as a series procedure.
• Whitening is now offered as a series or group procedure.
• Long-run variances and covariances may now be calculated from a series or group of series.
• Variance ratio testing for a random walk or martingale in a series.
• Single equation tests for cointegration are provided for a group of series or for an equation estimated using cointegrating regression.

Estimation

• Greatly improved single equation Instrumental Variables/Two-Stage Least Squares and GMM estimation (with new support for LIML and K-class estimation).
• Bult-in support for specification and estimation of single equation cointegrating regression.
• Support for specification and estimation of Generalized Linear Models.
• New methods of specifying weights for weighted least squares.

Diagnostics

• Expanded choice of coefficient covariance estimators for single equation regression models.
• Enhanced post-estimation diagnostics for single equation regression models.
• New test and diagnostic views for TSLS and GMM equations.