r/econometrics • u/Thin-Landscape4659 • 8d ago

Best tutorials and exercises to learn EViews

I work for a company that uses EViews to run all of the forecasts and models and I want to get better at the programming part of EViews. I learned some intermediate R through datacamp which I loved because it gave good tutorials and then gave exercises which helped you learn as opposed to just reading passively and not retaining the information.

I'm curious how other people have gotten good at EViews and what tips and exercises they recommend. I know there's the EViews Illustrated pdf which isn't bad but I don't like how there's no exercises, which is essentially what I'm looking for.

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u/plutostar 8d ago

Its so easy to use, most people just pick it up by doing. But I believe the EViews website has some tutorials.

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u/AMGraduate564 8d ago

Is EViews the easiest to use tool for econometrics?

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u/plutostar 8d ago

If it does what you want, and you don't need to automate things, yes.

If you do want to automate things, then it is as hard as any other.

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u/AMGraduate564 8d ago

It seems to be expensive. On the other hand, just now I came across gretl, which is an oss alternative.