Command Language
Object Data Members
EViews 12 offers an expanded set of object data members that provide access to information about the object.
Equation Data Members
Scalar values
@lambdamin	minimum lambda value from ENET cross-validation (new).
Vectors and Matrices
@cvtrainindices	training set indices for ENET cross-validation (new).
@cvtestindices	test set indices for ENET cross-validation (new).
Model Data Members
String values
@depends("variable")		string containing the variables that “variable” depends on (new).
@upends("variable")		string containing the variables that depend on “variable” (new).
Series Data Members
@hilo	string containing the series object’s high-to-low frequency conversion method (new).
@lohi	string containing the series object’s low-to-high frequency conversion method (new).
Table Data Members
String values
(i,j)	the (i,j)-th element of the table, formatted as a string (updated).
Scalar values
@colwidth(i)	the column width of the i-th column in the table (new).
@rowheight(i)	the row height of the i-th row in the table (new).
@val(i,j)	the numerical value of the (i,j)-th element of the table (new).
Updated Command List
Commands
    dbopen	open a database (
updated).
 
    logeval	sends result of the command to a log window.
 
    pagesave	save page into a workfile or a foreign data source(
updated).
 
    wfsave	save workfile to disk as a workfile or a foreign data source(
updated).
 Updated Object List
 
Equations
Equation Methods
    arch	estimate autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (ARCH and GARCH)
updated 
    enet	elastic net regression (including Lasso and ridge regression) 
updated 
    funcoef	functional coefficients regression 
updated 
    ls	equation using least squares or nonlinear least squares (
updated).
 
    midas	estimate an equation using Mixed Data Sampling (MIDAS) regression
updated.
 
    varsel	equation estimation using least squares with variable selection (uni-directional, stepwise, swapwise, combinatorial, Auto-GETS, Lasso) 
 Equation Views
    cvtestindices	matrix of the test set indices for observations and cross-validation sets .
 
    cvtrainindices	matrix of the training set indices for observations and cross-validation sets .
 
    funbias	functional coefficients equation bias results 
updated.
 
    funbw	functional coefficients equation bandwidth results 
updated.
 
    funci	functional coefficients equation coefficient confidence intervals 
updated.
 
    funcov	functional coefficients covariance results 
updated.
 
    funtest	perform functional coefficients hypothesis and stability tests 
updated.
 
    newsimpact	display a news-impact graph of equations estimated using GARCH
 
    nyblom	perform the Nyblom test of parameter stability or structural change in equations estimated using GARCH 
    
signbias	perform the Sign-bias test (Engle and Ng, 1993) of misspecification in equations estimated using GARCH 
 Equation Procs
    fit	static forecast
updated.
 
    makefunobj	save coefficients, residuals, bias, variance, and confidence intervals for functional coefficients equations  (
new).
 
    setpilotbw	compute and set the value of the local pilot bandwidth (for functional coefficients equations)  (
new).
 Factor
Factor Methods
    gls	generalized least squares estimation
updated.
 
    ipf	iterated principal factors estimation
updated.
 
    ml	maximum likelihood estimation
updated.
 
    pace	non-iterative partitioned covariance estimation (PACE)
updated.
 
    pf	principal factors estimation
updated.
 
    uls	unweighted least squares estimation
updated.
 Factor Views
    fsel	display results of Bai and Ng or Ahn and Horenstein factor selection techniques.
 Geomap
Geomap Procs
    autocrop	calculates and resets the minimum viewable size of a geomap 
 Graph
Graph Creation Command
line	line-symbol graph (updated).
 
Graph Procs
    delete	removes all objects of specified type from a graph object  (
new).
 
    draw	draw lines and shaded areas on the graph (
updated).
 
    save	save graph to a graphics file (
updated).
 Group
Group Views
    pcomp	principal components analysis on the members of the group  (
updated).
 
    uroot2	Compute dependent (second generation) panel unit root tests on a group of series  ().
 Matrix
Matrix Views
    pcomp	principal components analysis of the columns in a matrix (
updated).
 Model
Model Procs
    control	solve for values of control variables so that targets match trajectories (
updated).
 
    fliptype	respecify model by selecting a new set of endogenous variables.
 Pool
Pool Methods
    ls	estimate linear regression models including cross-section weighted least squares, and fixed and random effects models (
updated).
 Pool Views
    uroot2	compute dependent (second generation) panel unit root tests on a pool series  ().
 Series
Series Views
    uroot2	compute dependent (second generation) panel unit root tests on a series in a panel workfile  ().
 
    waveanova	compute the wavelet variance decomposition of the series ().
 
    wavedecomp	compute the wavelet transform of the series ().
 
    waveoutlier	perform wavelet outlier detection for the series ().
 
    wavethresh	perform wavelet thresholding (denoising) of the series ().
 Series Procs
Table
Table Procs
    save	save table as CSV, tab-delimited ASCII text, RTF, HTML, Enhanced Metafile, PDF, TEX, or MD file on disk (
updated).
 
    setfillcolor	set the fill (background) color of a set of table cells (
updated). 
 
    transpose	transposes a set of cells in the table.
 Text
Text Procs
    save	save text object to disk as an ASCII text, RTF, HTML, PDF, TEX, or MD file.
 Valmap
Valmap Procs
    append	append a definition to a valmap (
updated).
 VAR
Var View
impulse	impulse response functions.