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Examples

equation eq1.binary(d=l) work c edu age race

eq1.makeresid(o) res1

res1.qqplot(l)

estimates a logit, retrieves the residuals, and plots the quantiles of the residuals against the quantiles from the logistic distribution. If the error distribution is correctly specified, the QQ-plot should lie on a straight line.

Cross-references

See “Quantile-Quantile” on page 391 of the User’s Guide for a discussion of QQ-plots.

See also cdfplot (p. 235).

Multivariate residual autocorrelation Portmanteau tests.

Syntax

You must specify the highest order of lag h to test for serial correlation. h must be larger than the VAR lag order.

Options

name=arg Save Q-statistics in the named matrix object. The matrix has two columns: the first column contains the unmodifiedQ-statistic; the second column contains the modified Q-statistics.

Examples

var var1.ls 1 6 lgdp lm1 lcpi

show var1.qstats(l2, name=q)

The first line declares and estimates a VAR. The second line displays the portmanteau tests for lags up to 12, and stores the Q-statistics in a matrix named Q.

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Cross-references

See also testadd (p. 500), testdrop (p. 503), fixedtest (p. 299), and wald (p. 530).

Import data from a foreign disk file into an existing EViews workfile.

May be used to import data into an existing workfile from a text, Excel, or Lotus file on disk. Used as a command, it imports data into series in the workfile. When used as a procedure, read imports data directly into pool and matrix objects.

Syntax

You must supply the name of the source file. If you do not include the optional path specification, EViews will look for the file in the default directory. Path specifications may point to local or network drives. If the path specification contains a space, you may enclose the entire expression in double quotation marks.

The input specification follows the source file name. In the command form of read, there are two ways to specify the input series. First, you may list the names of the series in the order they appear in the file. Second, if the data file contains a header line for the series names, you may specify the number, n, of series in the file instead of a list of names. EViews will name the n series using the names given in the header line. If you specify a number and the data file does not contain a header line, EViews will name the series as SER01, SER02, SER03, and so on.

For the pool proc form of read, you must provide a list of ordinary or pool series.

Options

File type options

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Options for spreadsheet (Lotus, Excel) files

Options for pool reading

Examples

read(t=dat,na=.) a:\mydat.raw id lwage hrs

reads data from an ASCII file MYDAT.RAW in the A: drive. The data in the file are listed by observation, the missing value NA is coded as a “.” (dot or period), and there are three series, which are to be named ID, LWAGE, HRS (from left to right).

read(a2,s=sheet3) cps88.xls 10

reads data from an Excel file CPS88 in the default directory. The data are organized by observation, the upper left data cell is A2, and 10 series are read from a sheet named SHEET3 using names provided in the file.

read(a2, s=sheet2) "\\network\dr 1\cps91.xls" 10

reads the Excel file CPS91 from the network drive specified in the path.

Cross-references

See “Importing Data” on page 103 of the User’s Guide for a discussion and examples of importing data from external files.