EViews Training: Basics of EViews Desktop, Workfiles, and Objects

EViews Workfiles only hold Series, Groups, and Equations as objects.

The range in an EViews Workfile displays the entire range of data for the workfile.

Each page in an EViews Workfile contains a list of objects.

Yellow icons in EViews Workfiles represent estimation objects.

View objects in EViews Workfiles are color-coded in green.

Clicking on View → Details +/- on the workfile toolbar opens up a more detailed list of objects.

EViews documents open up with a 'blank' generic document.

EViews is primarily focused on graphic user interface for data analysis.

In EViews, objects are collections of information related to a particular analysis.

Workfiles in EViews contain generic data and do not need to be created.

EViews provides only one way to work, which is through a graphical user interface.

The EViews object window is where workfiles are created.

The Equation Object is the main estimation object in EViews.

Clicking on the Freeze button in EViews will create a new graph object.

Pressing 'CTRL+UP' in EViews will display a list of the last 30 commands entered in the order they were typed.

The Command Capture window in EViews converts text commands into menu dialogs.

Opening an Equation Object in EViews allows you to see the main results of the estimation.

The View and Proc menus in EViews offer the same options regardless of the type of Equation that was estimated.