The EViews Help System

Click Help on the EViews menu

The resulting menu is

1. EViews help topics

First, click on EViews Help Topics. Select Getting Started (Student Version) to obtain basic information about the Student Version of EViews. Selecting User’s Guide/EViews Fundamentals opens a list of chapters that can take you through specifics of working with EViews. These guides will be a useful reference after you have progressed further through Using EViews for POE.

2. The read me file

On the Help menu, select READ ME. This opens a PDF file with the latest installation notes and errata.

3. Quick help reference

Select Quick Help Reference. You find another menu. Select Function Reference.

EViews has many, many functions available for easy use.

• Operato
• Basie mathematical functions.
• Time series functions.
• Financial functions.
• Descriptive statistics.
• Cumulative statistics functions.
• Moving statistics functions.
• Group row functions.
• By-group statistics.
• Additional and special functions.
• Trigonometric functions.
• Statisncai oistridution functions.

You should just take a moment to examine the Operators (basic addition, multiplication, etc.) and the Basic mathematical functions (square roots, logarithms, absolute value, etc.). This Function Reference help is one that you will use very frequently, and to which we will refer a great deal.

4. EViews Illustrated

The next Help menu item is for sample chapters from EViews Illustrated by Richard Startz, which is good humored tutorial, with screen shots like you are seeing here, covering many aspects of using EViews. The first three chapters are provided.

5. Users Guides and Command Reference

The User’s Guide I (794 pages), User’s Guide II (688 pages) and Command Reference (926 pages) are the complete documentation for the full version of EViews 6. While these are good rainy day reading we do not necessarily suggest you search them for information until you are more familiar with the workings of EViews. This book, Using EViews for POE, is an effort to guide you through the essentials of EViews that are needed to replicate the examples in the book POE.

Source: Griffiths William E., Hill R. Carter, Lim Mark Andrew (2008), Using EViews for Principles of Econometrics, John Wiley & Sons; 3rd Edition.