EViews 9 Feature List--- Basic Data Handling

EViews 9 offers a extensive array of powerful features for data handling, statistics and econometric analysis, forecasting and simulation, data presentation, and programming. While we can't possibly list everything, the following list offers a glimpse at the important EViews features:

1.Numeric, alphanumeric (string), and date series; value labels.

2.Extensive library of operators and statistical, mathematical, date and string functions.

3.Powerful language for expression handling and transforming existing data using operators and functions.

4.Samples and sample objects facilitate processing on subsets of data.

5.Support for complex data structures including regular dated data, irregular dated data, cross-section data with observation identifiers, dated, and undated panel data.

6.Multi-page workfiles.

7.EViews native, disk-based databases provide powerful query features and integration with EViews workfiles.

8.Convert data between EViews and various spreadsheet, statistical, and database formats, including (but not limited to): Microsoft Access® and Excel® files (including .XSLX and .XLSM), Gauss Dataset files, SAS® Transport files, SPSS native and portable files, Stata files, raw formatted ASCII text or binary files, HTML, or ODBC databases and queries (ODBC support is provided only in the Enterprise Edition).

9.OLE support for linking EViews output, including tables and graphs, to other packages, including Microsoft Excel®, Word® and Powerpoint®.

10.OLEDB support for reading EViews workfiles and databases using OLEDB-aware clients or custom programs.

11.Support for FRED® (Federal Reserve Economic Data) databases. Enterprise Edition support for Global Insight DRIPro and DRIBase, Haver Analytics® DLX®, FAME, EcoWin, Bloomberg, EIA, CEIC, Datastream, FactSet, and Moody’s Economy.com databases.

12.The EViews Microsoft Excel® Add-in allows you to link or import data from EViews workfiles and databases from within Excel.

13.Drag-and-drop support for reading data; simply drop files into EViews for automatic conversion and linking of foreign data into EViews workfile format.

14.Powerful tools for creating new workfile pages from values and dates in existing series.

15.Match merge, join, append, subset, resize, sort, and reshape (stack and unstack) workfiles.

16.Easy-to-use automatic frequency conversion when copying or linking data between pages of different frequency.

17.Frequency conversion and match merging support dynamic updating whenever underlying data change.

18.Auto-updating formula series that are automatically recalculated whenever underlying data change.

19.Easy-to-use frequency conversion: simply copy or link data between pages of different frequency.

20.Tools for resampling and random number generation for simulation. Random number generation for 18 different distribution functions using three different random number generators.

21.Support for cloud drive access, allowing you to open and save file directly to Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive and Box accounts.