Welcome to the EViews Version 1.1 and 2.0 Frequently Asked Questions area. We have divided our FAQs into several basic topics:

Linked indexes for each topic are provided below. Each topic corresponds to a single HTML page so that, for example, all of the entries for General Operation are contained in a single document.

If you have additional questions that you feel would be useful in our FAQ or have other comments about our FAQ, please contact webmaster@eviews.com.

1. General Operation

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1.1. Installation

1.1.1. Why does the EViews 2.0 installer say "Are you sure that you want to quit?"?

1.1.2. Why does EViews 2.0 installation fail with the error message "Can't find BWCC.DLL?" ?

1.2. Execution

1.2.1. Why does EViews 2.0 crash when I try to [View / Estimate / Create...]...?

1.2.2. [Win95/Win98] I can't find my EViews Program Group. How can I launch EViews under Windows 95/98?

1.2.3. I click on the EViews icon and it begins to start up, but then nothing happens. What's wrong?

1.3. Printing

1.3.1. When I try to print or change my printer settings, I get the error message "Can't Load Printer Library". What does this mean?

1.3.2. Why can't I print to my network printer?

1.3.3. How do I print my graphs or tables to a postscript file?

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2. Working with Data

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2.1. Series

2.1.1. Where is Hodrick-Prescott filtering described in the EViews User's Guide?

2.1.2. How do I standardize a series?

2.1.3. How can I easily create dummy variables?

2.1.4. What's the best way to recode data in EViews?

2.1.5. How do I generate the cumulative sum of a series?

2.2. Pools

2.2.1. What is the best way to read data into EViews so that it can be used by a POOL object?

2.2.2. Can POOLs be used with unbalanced data?

2.2.3. How do I use a POOL object to "de-mean" my data?

2.3. Groups

2.3.1. How can I put the results of the EViews covariance/correlation matrix calculation in a MATRIX object?

2.3.2. How do I compute the eigenvalues of the covariance/correlation of a group of series?

2.4. Matrices/Vectors/Scalars

2.4.1. How do I display or print a scalar?

2.4.2. How can I put the results of the EViews covariance/correlation matrix calculation in a MATRIX object?

2.5. Miscellaneous

2.5.1. EViews doesn't have appear to have a built-in constant for Pi. How can I use Pi in my calculations?

2.5.2. I have data contained in an ASCII data file which EViews doesn't seem to read correctly. What could be the problem?

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3. Statistics and Econometrics

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3.1. Estimation

3.1.1. How do I estimate a VAR with restrictions on the lag length?

3.1.2. How can I get Newey-West standard errors if I am estimating my equation from the command line?

3.1.3. I don't seem to be able to reproduce the intermediate results of the Polynomial Distributed Lag procedure in EViews. Why is this?

3.2. Testing

3.2.1. Why aren't there built-in procedures for extracting the t-statistics and standard errors of my coefficients?

3.2.2. What is the "J-statistic" reported in the GMM output?

3.3. Forecasting

3.3.1. I would like to forecast a series using an ARIMA model. Is there a simple way of obtaining the fitted values?

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4. Programs

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4.1. Execution

4.1.1. EViews halts execution of my program after just one error. Can I override this feature so that my programs will continue executing?

4.1.2. I used the RUN command to execute a program file from within a different program file, but my program stops prematurely. What's going on?

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