Who should attend ?

Users of EViews 6 or any previous version, who are interested to know how they can benefit from EViews 7 or just want to expand their awareness of alternative techniques that can be applied in EViews.

The following is an overview of the most important enhancements of the latest version:

• Performance
  Faster computation and multi-processor support.
• General EViews Interface
  Customised appearance of the EViews environment; enhanced drag-and-drop support; Improved graph options interface.

• Data Handling
  EViews 7 now offers built-in support for high-frequency data, with full support for hours, minutes, and seconds frequencies as well as a number of new data frequencies, including Multi-year, Bimonthly, Fortnight, Ten-Day, and Daily with an arbitrary range of days of the week.
  
  
• Graphs
  Auto-update as the underlying data change; Interactive observation and value display; Improved control over formatting of dates in the observation scale.
  
  
• Programming Support
  Logging of program messages; Multi-line commenting using the program file editor; Extensions to programming syntax.
  
  
• External Interface
  Excel Add-in for reading data stored in EViews workfiles and databases from within Microsoft Excel; new EViews OLEDB driver to read data stored in EViews workfiles (WF1) and EViews databases (EDB).
  
  
• Econometrics and Statistics
  Interpolation (Linear, Log-linear, Catmul-Rom Spline, Cardinal Spline) is offered as a series procedure; Single equation tests for cointegration (Park added variables, Engle-Granger, Hansen instability and Phillips-Ouliaris); Single equation Cointegrating Regression (Fully Modified OLS, Dynamic OLS and Canonical cointegrating regression); Generalized Linear Models; New set of post-estimation diagnostics for single equation regression models; Additional test and diagnostic views for TSLS and GMM estimation.