我觉得matlab更适合处理数值计算的，的确在理工科用得更多，用来做计量比较麻烦，不如eviews和spss上手快，但后两个过于傻瓜化了，处理起来不很灵活，但是一般的计量经济学学习用它们就够了，如果研究比较前沿高端的问题，还是学学GAUSS编程更好

以下是我在国外网站上看到的关于这几种软件的评价，楼主可以参考

SPSS
A very popular package among econometricians in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

EViews (Quantitative Micro Software)
The modern windows based replacement to the very popular MicroTSP package. This package offers state of the art time-series modelling capabilities and a good variety of single equation and simultaneous equation regression models. A variety of limited dependent variable, panel data, and ARCH models are also included to provide a very well-rounded econometrics package. Remote access to web-based data files is possible. Available for Windows.

Matlab
A mathematical processing language that is a competitor to Mathematica and Maple.

Gauss
This econometrics package/matrix programming language is one of the most popular among those working with maximum likelihood estimators. Gauss is available on Dos, Windows, and Unix platforms. This site contains online tutorials and links to several libraries of Gauss code. Links to a variety of Gauss resources may be found at American University or at Eric Zivot''s Gauss Resources page.

个人觉得前两个比较适合初学者和一般性的应用，如果想研究最新最前沿的理论，不可能会有这么成熟的软件包供人使用的，还是学点matlab和gauss更好些，非常灵活的。

好！

个人经验是matlab更偏向理工类

SPSS和SAS较为相近 但似乎SAS功能较强大 比较多用于统计学的

eviews是用于计量经济学分析的

谢谢这位同学的详细介绍.

呵呵，MATLAB新近开发了许多经济学有关的工具箱，所以估计很快会取代一批经济学的软件。我最近搞了几本书在看，不过觉得如果有C和C++的基础，搞MATLAB就更好了，对于一般学经济的学生来说，稍有困难，需要多学一些东西。

学习了o(∩_∩)o...相比之下matlab做统计分析确实麻烦些!

Eviews是计量中经常用的，但在处理数据中不是能特别灵活

做统计，r才是真正的主流

计量经济学一般都用eviews，其实也可以编点小程序的

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