| Chapter 1 |
A Quick Walk Through |
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- Workfile: The Basic EViews Document
- Viewing an Individual Series
- Looking at Different Samples
- Generating a New Series
- Looking at a Pair of Series Together
- Estimating Your First Regression in EViews
- Saving Your Work
- Forecasting
- What’s Ahead
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| Chapter 2 |
EViews-Meet Data |
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- The Structure of Data and the Structure of a Workfile
- Creating a New Workfile
- Deconstructing the Workfile
- Time to Type
- Identity Noncrisis
- Dated Series
- The Import Business
- Adding Data To An Existing Workfile–Or, Being Rectangular Doesn’t Mean Being Inflexible
- Among the Missing
- Quick Review
- Appendix: Having A Good Time With Your Date
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| Chapter 3 |
Getting the Most From Least Squares |
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- A First Regression
- The Really Important Regression Results
- The Pretty Important (But Not So Important as the Last Section’s) Regression Results
- A Multiple Regression Is Simple Too
- Hypothesis Testing
- Representing
- What’s Left After You’ve Gotten the Most Out of Least Squares
- Quick Review
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| Chapter 4 |
Data-The Transformational Experience |
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- Your Basic Elementary Algebra
- Simple Sample Says
- Data Types Plain and Fancy
- Numbers and Letters
- Can We Have A Date?
- What Are Your Values?
- Relative Exotica
- Quick Review
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| Chapter 5 |
Picture This! |
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- A Simple Soup-To-Nuts Graphing Example
- A Graphic Description of the Creative Process
- Picture One Series
- Group Graphics
- Let’s Look At This From Another Angle
- To Summarize
- Categorical Graphs
- Togetherness of the Second Sort
- Quick Review and Look Ahead
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| Chapter 6 |
Intimacy With Graphic Objects |
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- To Freeze Or Not To Freeze Redux
- A Touch of Text
- Shady Areas and No-Worry Lines
- Templates for Success
- Your Data Another Sorta Way
- Give A Graph A Fair Break
- Options, Options, Options
- The Impact of Globalization on Intimate Graphic Activity
- Quick Review?
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| Chapter 7 |
Look at Your Data |
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- Sorting Things Out
- Describing Series-Just The Facts Please
- Describing Series-Picturing the Distribution
- Tests On Series
- Describing Groups-Just the Facts-Putting It Together
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| Chapter 8 |
Forecasting |
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- Just Push the Button
- Theory of Forecasting
- Dynamic Versus Static Forecasting
- Sample Forecast Samples
- Facing the Unknown
- Forecast Evaluation
- Forecasting Beneath the Surface
- Quick Review-Forecasting
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| Chapter 9 |
Page After Page |
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- Pages Are Easy To Reach
- Creating New Pages
- Renaming, Deleting, and Saving Pages
- Multi-Page Workfiles-The Most Basic Motivation
- Multiple Frequencies-Multiple Pages
- Links-The Live Connection
- Unlinking
- Have A Match?
- Matching When The Identifiers Are Really Different
- Contracted Data
- Expanded Data
- Having Contractions
- Two Hints and A GotchYa
- Quick Review
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| Chapter 10 |
Prelude to Panel and Pool |
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- Pooled or Paneled Population
- Nuances
- So What Are the Benefits of Using Pools and Panels?
- Quick (P)review
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| Chapter 11 |
Panel-What’s My Line? |
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- What’s So Nifty About Panel Data?
- Setting Up Panel Data
- Panel Estimation
- Pretty Panel Pictures
- More Panel Estimation Techniques
- One Dimensional Two-Dimensional Panels
- Fixed Effects With and Without the Social Contrivance of Panel Structure
- Quick Review-Panel
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| Chapter 12 |
Everyone Into the Pool |
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- Getting Your Feet Wet
- Playing in the Pool-Data
- Getting Out of the Pool
- More Pool Estimation
- Getting Data In and Out of the Pool
- Quick Review-Pools
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| Chapter 13 |
Serial Correlation-Friend or Foe? |
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- Visual Checks
- Testing for Serial Correlation
- More General Patterns of Serial Correlation
- Correcting for Serial Correlation
- Forecasting
- ARMA and ARIMA Models
- Quick Review
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| Chapter 14 |
A Taste of Advanced Estimation |
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- Weighted Least Squares
- Heteroskedasticity
- Nonlinear Least Squares
- 2SLS
- Generalized Method of Moments
- Limited Dependent Variables
- ARCH, etc.
- Maximum Likelihood-Rolling Your Own
- System Estimation
- Vector Autoregressions-VAR
- Quick Review?
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| Chapter 15 |
Super Models |
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- Your First Homework-Bam, Taken Up A Notch!
- Looking At Model Solutions
- More Model Information
- Your Second Homework
- Simulating VARs
- Rich Super Models
- Quick Review
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| Chapter 16 |
Get with the Program |
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- I Want To Do It Over and Over Again
- You Want To Have An Argument
- Program Variables
- Loopy
- Other Program Controls
- A Rolling Example
- Quick Review
- Appendix: Sample Programs
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| Chapter 17 |
Odds and Ends |
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- How Much Data Can EViews Handle?
- How Long Does It Take To Compute An Estimate?
- Freeze!
- A Comment On Tables
- Saving Tables and Almost Tables
- Unsubtle Redirection
- Objects and Commands
- Workfile Backups
- Updates-A Small Thing
- Updates-A Big Thing
- Ready To Take A Break?
- Help!
- Odd Ending
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| Chapter 18 |
Optional Endings |
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- Required Options
- Option-al Recommendations
- More Detailed Options
- File Locations
- Window and Font Options
- Dates & Frequency Conversion
- Workfile Storage Defaults
- Estimation Defaults
- Graphics Defaults
- Spreadsheet Defaults
- Alpha Truncation
- Quick Review
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