EViews Training
Date: March 12, 13, and 14, 2008 (Wednesday – Friday)
Time: 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM
Location: 60 East 42nd Street, 33rd Floor, New York, NY 10165
Price: $850/one day. $1600/two days. $2200/three days. Additional discount to multiple participants from the same firm/institution.Instructor: John T. Cuddington, CFP, CFA, Ph.D. President of JTC Economics + FinanceLLC
the William J. Coulter Professor, Division of Economics and Business, Colorado School of Mines.
Class size will be small and content tailored to fit participants’ interests. The teaching approach is interactive and practical, with the instructor discussing relevant concepts and then working through examples of model selection, estimation and forecasting with illustrative macroeconomic and financial datasets.
EViews Bootcamp: Wednesday, March 12th
EViews Bootcamp is a ‘hands on’ introduction to the power of EViews econometric software version 5.1 or 6.0 for data handling, manipulation, analysis and presentation. We recommend you take EViews Bootcamp if you have little to no experience with EViews.
Topics will include:
- EViews navigation: importing data (time series, cross-section and panel data), transforming series, graphing, exporting output to Word and Excel, descriptive statistics.
- Using the Command window as well as ‘Mouseland’ to navigate
- Powerful data import features in EViews 5.1 or 6.0, including importing Haver Analytics Data
- Data transformations including the new auto update series features
- Calculating means, variance, covariances, and moving averages
- Basic regressions and exporting estimation results to Excel-based models
- P-values and their extensive use in EViews
- Introduction to robust standard errors and hypothesis testing
Econometric Tools: Thursday and Friday, March 13-14th
Econometric Tools is a two-day intermediate course. The objective is to review fundamental econometric concepts and teach their implementation with a wide selection of the advanced econometric tools available in EViews. Thursday focuses on univariate time series modeling and forecasting; Friday extends the analysis to multivariate techniques.
Thursday topics will include
- Regression with Robust Standard Errors
- Hypothesis Testing
- Model Selection: Nesting and Testing, Akaike and Schwarz information criteria
- Univariate Time Series Models, Estimation and Forecasting
- Serial Correlation Correction
- ARMA models
Friday topics will include:
- Simulating Stochastic Processes; Monte Carlo
- Stationarity Issues
- Simple Programs for Carrying out repetitive tasks
- Vector Autoregressions: Estimation and Forecasting
- Granger Causality
- Impulse Response Analysis
Required Equipment and Software:
Participants are required to bring their own laptop with EViews 5.1 or 6.0, Excel and the Adobe Acrobat Reader programs installed. Other course materials will be provided. Those without a licensed copy of EViews can make arrangements to have a 30-day demo copy of the program installed. Ideally, participants should have the Enterprise Edition of EViews to enable direct access to Haver Analytics databases.Miscellaneous:
- Breakfast, lunch and coffee will be provided
- Course size is limited
For more information please contact:
Paul-Andre LeBlanc
Product Manager
Phone: +1 212 986 9300
E-Mail:Paul@haver.com
New York, NY 10165
London, WC2A 1HR, UK
