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As a service to our customers, QMS posts current shipping versions of key files for all of our software, as well as assorted data files. You may update your copy of EViews 6 to the latest shipping version by downloading and running the EViews 6 update executable.
Note that the update patch will only work if you have a previously installed copy of EViews 6 on your system.
April 25, 2008
- Fix for a bug in the @mov or @m moving functions that require two series as inputs where incorrect values were being calculated for observations at the start of the workfile.
April, 2008
Fix for a bug when producing Kernel distribution data from multi-series groups. Fix for a bug in exporting lagged series. Improved syntax colouring performance - especially on large programs. Fix for a bug in dynamic forecasting of equations with certain transformed dependent variables. Fix for a bug in co-integration estimation and testing, and unit root testing of series with a seasonal difference. Fix for rare errors when reading certain Datastream series. Fix for a bug when writing date columns containing non-zero second information to SQL Servers over ODBC. Fix for a bug when writing certain columns of integers to MySQL over ODBC. Fixed a bug when creating samples based upon series stored in a database. Disallowed Pool unit root and co-integration tests in Panel workfiles. Fixed a bug causing NAs to be reported in Pearson Pairwise Correlation calculations.
March, 2008
Fixed a bug in fetching certain series from Datastream which could lead to an erroneous "invalid start date" error message..Added command line option for model solves. SOLVEOPT(STRUCT=t) now tells the model solve to ignore ARMA terms and use only the structural part during the solve. Adjustments to data types of numeric columns when saving a workfile via ODBC. Added internationalization support when using the clipboard to copy and paste non-English characters. Applies to both formatted and unformatted text. Fix bug in multivariate CCC GARCH model when exogenous variables with common coefficients but no exogenous variable with individual coefficients are included in the variance equations. For multivariate CCC GARCH, improve algorithm in the generation of the starting coefficient values for exogenous variables. Change to the specification of the White test for heteroskedasticity in equations containing ARMA terms or weights.
Febuary, 2008
Fix for stepwise dialog in pre-Windows XP Operating System. Add command line option to save panel cointegration results to a matrix. For (Pool) Pedroni panel cointegration test, fixes 1) user-specified maximum lag is ignored; 2) ADF statististics might be incorrectly calculated when NA is present in one or more of the regressors; and 3) intermeidate test results are displayed in the incorrect order when one or more cross-sections are dropped from the test. Fixes for bugs in Pedroni panel cointegration tests where probabilities are errorenous and ADF are incorrectly calculated. Fixes copying of equations between workfile that are then loaded into models. Fix to remove "too many columns" error message when writing to MySQL databases. Improve behaviour when overwriting tables in Oracle databases. Improve detection of cells containing dates when reading from Excel files.January, 2008
Fixes incorrect placement of daily data in workfiles when fetched from Econwin. Modify behavior when encountering reduced rank covariance matrices in panels and pools to retain the covariance while offering an improved warning. Fix for distribution plot label options not being read when entered by command. Fix for makpcomp options not being read when entered by command.December, 2007
Fix for the Chow Breakpoint Test where the Wald statistic was incorrectly determined to be singular in some non-linear equations. Fix for Stepwise Regression where very small sample sizes generated an erroneous "square root of a negative number" error message. Update the IPS panel unit root test to display probabilities for individual ADF test results. Makes metafile tick spacing match onscreen graph tick spacing.November, 2007
Fix problem in line graphs when connecting over missing observations. Added "DROP" option to the Graph::options command, which drops excluded observations from the graph scale. Fix for calculation of medians on data containing only NAs. Fixed a crash in some FIML calculations. Fix for certain nested moving functions. Fixed string buffer overflow encountered when estimating exceedingly long and complicated panel equation specifications. Fix for a bug in specifying areas of a graph to be shaded by command. Fix for an occasional incorrect error message in the omitted variables test in pool equations when specified by command. Fix for a crash in model solves when the specified scenario has been deleted. Fix problem with "stop solve on missing data" in models. New Feature: Obtain and store the data used in the creation of distribution type graphs, including kernel densities. Fix to work around occasional incorrect start dates reported by Datastream when fetching some series. Replace test for reduced rank covariances in panels and pools with scale invariant version. Fix crash in RESET test when testing uninitialized equations. Fix for graphs created by the OUTPUT(F) command. Fix for errors when saving workfiles to ODBC databases where series contain only small values.October, 2007
Fix for bug with ADDINIT command in models after a solve which may be applied over the wrong sample, sometimes leading to an "unable to find appropriate interval" error message. Fix problems with combining separately generated historgram graphs into a multiple graph. Fix in systems the DW statistics incorrectly labeled as the probability of F-stat. Fix for problems with FIRSTOBS and LASTOBS options in ascii file reading. Support for reading STATA 10 files. Removal of unnecessary prompts for user name and password when reading from FAME server databases. Fix for crashes when writing workfiles in Givewin, RATS, or TSD format. Fixed erroneous repporting in MA forcast when out-of-sample expression errors, such log of a negative number, occur. Fix to prevent loss of last period of data when fetching weekly frequency data into a workfile based on a different day of the week. Fixes crash in serial correlation LM test in equations with MA errors. Fixed an issue with merged graphs not showing lines correctly. Prevent a crash caused by insufficient observations during certain robust standard error procedures in pools/panels. Fix for table print problems. Fix for reading of foreign files where multiple column names begin with the same 24 characters. Correct incorrect returns of some VAR member functions for restricted EC estimations. Overiding the default date intervals on graphs. Fix redirect output to a file path longer 32 characters. Fix characters. Fix memory leak on pagecontract on a panel.September, 2007
Adds keyboard shortcuts CTRL-O, CTRL-S CTRL-N, CTRL-P, CTRL-A and F2. Changes the default printing option for tables to "print entire table" instead of "print selected cells"; this option can be overwritten in the print dialog. Fixed an issue with automatic lag length selection in unit root tests. Fixed an issue with graph axis borders and graph axis label formats not showing properly when used together. Fixed a bug with database fetches using the (d) option when no default database exists and the default database is included in the search order. Prevented an erroneous error message during panel unit root tests when some cross-sections have less than 4 observations.
August, 2007
Fix for a bug that would cause EViews to hang indefinitely when graphing certain series created by expression. Fixed a problem with the wildcard operator when page stacking pages with more than 32,000 series. Fix for incorrect handling of the graphing of linked series which were linked from an unstructured workfile page, which could result in a blank graph being drawn. Fix for a bug in Newton and Broyden solvers causing erroneous error message if the solve involved a series called INF. Fix for a bug in the calculation of the weighting matrix for GMM with a HAC covariance matrix. Fix for a bug with database fetches and some frequency conversions introduced in the August 21st 2007 patch. Fix for a bug that can occur when freezing a model's message view. Changed behavior of frequency conversion between two two-dimensional panels so that frequency conversion occurs on a per-cross-section basis. Fixed very rare hang during model solves for certain models. Improved panel unit root tests - up to five times faster with auto-lag determination and up to twenty times faster for fixed lag length specifications. Also, the algorithm for auto-lag determination when the data contains missing observations in each cross-section was improved, resulting in fewer dropped cross-sections. Fix display bug in sample for Quandt-Andrews unknown breakpoint test. Fix lag handling for group descriptive statistics with individual samples in panel workfiles. Improve starting value determination in computation of quantiles of the gamma distribution for select parameter regions. The difference operator with a seasonal difference term and high order ordinary difference terms did not calculate properly.
July, 2007
Fixes matrix @csum function and the series @mcov, @movs and @mcovp functions. Changed the precedence of unary negative sign and raised to the power (^) in scalar operations to match that of series operations so that for example -3^2 = -9 instead of 9. Fixed a bug in rare cases involving combinatorial stepwise with two regressors being chosen, where one of the chosen regressors was last in the list of regressors to be chosen from. Fix problems with Makegroup, Maketable and Makegraph procedures of models when "Actuals" is the comparison scenario. Suppress invalid LR test statistics in panel estimation with EGLS weights iterated to convergence. Existing F-statistic values are unaffected. Minor cosmetic change in Goodness of Fit output for Factor Analysis. Fixes problem fetching Econwin data which include observations dated prior to 1900. Fix problem in ARCH estimation when AR or MA term is included in the mean equation and analytic derivative is used. CLOSE command now works with workfile or program that contains spaces in its name. Fix problems with relative paths in INCLUDE statement in programs. Fix problems with applying White heteroskedasticity test on weighted least square estimation. Fix problems with relative paths in include statement in programs. Fix fileloads which include autoseries with @MOV functions that take expressions as arguments.
June, 2007
Fix crashes when defining a new formula based on non-existing series. Fix a problem with taking the determinant of large matrices which may cause crashes. Dramatically increases the speed of fetching data from a Haver Analytics database when the database window is open on the screen (See DBOPEN). If database window is not open fetch speed will be slower. Fix crashes in HFETCH for series exceeding 2000 observations. Change to symbolic derivative code to avoid applying lags to arguments of descriptive statistics functions. Fix add init procedure in model containing autoregressive errors. Fix for model solution when all feedback variables are excluded from a simultaneous block. Extended length of date specification in Chow test. Fix a problem of incorrect object type printed from a workfile view. Modify descending order sort so NA's are placed at the bottom of the sorted series in order to maintain compatibility with version 5. Modify define-system proc to place parentheses around regressor terms in cases where they are needed. Fix to detect missing exponent so that strings such as "3d" or "5e" are not treated as valid numbers. Update to PC Give and TSP portable formats to support 64 character names. Fix some display and dialog problems for sample with very large if conditions. Fix a problem in "space between bars" option in mixed line-bar graphs. Additional options added to model solve command. Fix a crash when redirecting text to a text file. Fix a problem while fetching some daily data from Datastream. Fix a bug in histogram graphs with user-defined bin widths in rare circumstances. Fix a crash in printing from the command line or programs under unusual conditions.
May, 2007
Fix a crash where an error takes place within a program loop when "allow multiple errors" is set to greater than one. Fixes to model solution to improve handling of cases where an equation residual is invariant to its own endogenous variable. Adjustment to numeric derivatives in model solution to reduce problems when an endogenous variable is converging to zero. Improve file IO and bug fix on sparse table objects. Fix a bug in "make residuals proc" in panel equations for two-way fixed effect models with unbalanced data; the estimation results are not affected by this change. Fix problems with R^2 calculations for some weighted panel and pool equations. Correct errors in identification of zero residual observations in subsampled quantile regression estimation. Fix a problem with samples being set incorrectly but reported correctly with irregular integer dated data. Fix for @CLOGNORM function. Fix incorrect handling of NA's across workfile seams in some expressions containing lags or leads. Fix an incorrectly error message regarding sample range given, under some conditions, in a @-statistics command, such as @mean. Fix for a rare crash when solving models. Fix problem with database queries involving Factor objects. Fix a problem with graph option settings in programs. Fix for spurious "ODBC driver not found" error messages. Improve labeling in Links and Formula Series after links have been broken. Fix error messaging for fixed effect tests in panel models with no fixed effect. Fix a problem with workfiles saved in single precision if original data contains numbers greater than allowable single precision value. Fix for error not being set when maximum iterations reached when solving models. Fix for problem fetching formulas from database where auto search is on in the database registry. Update X11 modules with XP compatible ones.
April, 2007
Fix periodic crashes while using mouse wheel in Terminal Server session. Fix crash in "full sample asymmetric" band width filter. Fix periodic problems in line graph on data containing link that has option set to native frequency including axis extension or categorical graphs. Enable scrolling in VAR impulse response dialog. Fix for Windows N.T. 4.0 incompatibility. Handle lagged series in quantile functions. Enable subroutine in programs to recognize factor or spool objects. Add option to handle the treatment of auto-series-generated errors in views and procedures.
March, 2007
Fix problems when resizing workfiles when there are open database link windows. Properly process "No" (do not continue) selection in dialog warning users about estimating instrumental variables specifications with excessively large number of instruments. Fix issues with ARCH-M models when numeric derivative option is not selected. Fix crash when attempting to create an object whose name was used by a previously deleted series which was also part of a group. Fix inability to load workfiles containing group auto series based on "@r" group functions. Fix assorted display issues. Fix command window sizing issue, where, on some computer systems, the window size increases slightly on each successive opening of EViews. Fix @LOWER command to return correct capitalization. Correct inability to cancel EViews' shutdown dialog. Fix Breusch-Godfrey serial correlation LM test for TSLS. Fix in reading fixed precision numeric data from ODBC database. Fix for text truncation in dialogs. Fix @coef to return PDL coefficients in PDL estimation. Fix auto fetch from database.
