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RATS
| Description Key Features What's New? - Version 7.1 RATS for Windows/MAC RATS for Unix/Linux RATS Professional Version RATS Revision History RATS Discussion List Request Trial Version Student Information Pricing and Order Information |
News Flash - March 2009
RATS 7.2 release - see details in the March 2009 RATS newsletter |
RATS (Regression Analysis of Time Series) is a fast, efficient, and comprehensive econometrics and time series analysis software package. For more than two decades, it has been the econometrics software of choice at universities, central banks, and corporations around the world. Our current release, Version 7.1, is easier to use than ever while continuing to offer the most advanced tools available for cutting-edge econometrics research.
We'll take a closer look at the RATS program below. For more details, see the List of Features page or click on any of the menu items at left. You can also download our most recent RATS Brochure in PDF format, which includes general information on Version 7, a list of features, and information on the CATS cointegration analysis package.
Econometrics and Data Management
RATS provides all the basics you expect, including linear and non-linear least squares, forecasting, SUR, and ARIMA models. But it goes far beyond that, with support for techniques like GMM, ARCH and GARCH models, state space models, and more. RATS also offers unmatched support for Vector Autoregression models, and is one of the few programs to offer spectral analysis capabilities.
RATS can handle time series of virtually any frequency, including daily and weekly, as well as panel and cross-section data.
Menu-driven data wizards and support for reading various text, spreadsheet, and database file formats make it easy to get your data into RATS. Our Professional version adds support for more database formats, including SQL/ODBC data access, for even more flexibility.
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The RATS Editor Our interactive RATS Editor environment allows you to quickly implement econometric analysis tasks, and makes it easy to try different model specifications or techniques without having to rerun entire programs. You can save your work as a RATS program, allowing you to reproduce your results at any time with just a couple of mouse clicks. |
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Point-and-Click Wizards The editor also offers more than twenty menu-driven Wizards that provide point-and-click access to most common tasks, including reading data, displaying graphs, doing transformations, estimating models, and hypothesis testing. These help make RATS an ideal tool for new users and for use in educational settings.When you use a Wizard, RATS displays the corresponding commands in the editor window so you can actually learn the RATS language through using the Wizards. This also allows you to use the Wizards to build complete programs that can be re-executed again later. An often-overlooked aspect of econometric research is ensuring that results are reported accurately. RATS addresses this via a powerful report-generation feature for quickly generating accurate tables of reports, which you can export to text or spreadsheet files for direct inclusion in papers and presentations.
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