EViews 7 features a wide range of exciting changes and improvements. The following is an overview of the most important new features in Version 7. See also our brochure.

Performance

•              Optimized routines for faster computation.

•              Multi-processor/core support with custom user settings.

EViews Interface

•              "Theme" support lets you customize the appearance of your EViews windows.

•              Enhanced drag-and-drop support throughout the program.

•              Improved command entry interface with enhanced command editing and recall, and undocking
               of the command window.

•              Improved graph options interface.

•              Updated global options interface.

•              Auto-update from the web ensures that your copy of EViews 7 is always up-to-date.

Data Handling

•              New workfile data frequencies: high-frequency (Intraday) data, with full support for hours, minutes, and
seconds frequencies, multi-year, bimonthly, fortnight, 10-day, and daily with an arbitrary range of days of  the week.

•              Greatly enhanced support for strings, including new string and string vector objects, an extensive library of new functions for creating and manipulating string lists, and improved programming support.

•              EViews now offers direct support for connecting to, opening, querying, and importing from the FRED®
(Federal Reserve Economic Data) database.

•              Support for reading Excel 2007 XLSX Files.

•              Improved data import featuring more powerful command line tools for reading foreign data
               into an existing workfile.

Graphs

•              New "live" graphs auto-update as the underlying data change.

•              Improved graph options interface.

•              Interactive observation info display lets you inspect labels and values associated with point
               on a graph.

•              Improved control over formatting of dates in the observation scale/axis.

•              More flexible custom observation labels for the observation scale/axis.

•              Added control over date label positioning and two row labeling.

•              Enhanced control over date/observation axis grid line placement.

Programming Support

•              User-defined dialog functions allow you to create dialogs to interact with users.

•              Programs now support message logging.

•              Program file editor supports quick multi-line commenting.

•              Greatly enhanced support for strings, including new string and string vector objects, an extensive library of new functions for creating and manipulating string lists, and improved programming support.

•              Enhanced support for text objects.

•              New object data members.

•              New general information functions.

External Interfaces

•              The new EViews Microsoft Excel Add-in offers a simple interface for reading data stored in Eviews

workfiles and databases from within Microsoft Excel.

•              External programs may use the new EViews OLEDB driver to read data stored in EViews workfiles
(WF1) and EViews databases (EDB).

•              You may use the EViews COM automation server by creating scripts or programs that launch or control
EViews, transfer data, and execute EViews commands.

•              EViews COM Automation Client Support for MATLAB and R allows you to use EViews to interact with
the powerful programming languages of MATLAB and R. Econometrics and Statistics

Computation

•              Interpolation tools (Linear, Log-linear, Catmul-Rom Spline, Cardinal Spline) are now offered as a series
procedure.

•              Whitening is now offered as a series or group procedure.

•              Long-run variances and covariances may now be calculated from a series or group of series.

•              Variance ratio testing for a random walk or martingale in a series.

•              Single equation tests for cointegration are provided for a group of series or for an equation estimated
using cointegrating regression.

Estimation

•              Greatly improved single equation Instrumental Variables/Two-Stage Least Squares and GMM estimation
(with new support for LIML and K-class estimation).

•              Bult-in support for specification and eatimation of single equation cointegrating regression.

•              Support for specification and estimation of Generalized Linear Models.

•              New methods of specifying weights for weighted least squares.

Diagnostics

•              Expanded choice of coefficient covariance estimators for single equation regression models.

•              Enhanced post-estimation diagnostics for single equation regression models.

•              New test and diagnostic views for TSLS and GMM equations.