Running Simple Linear Regression on Eviews

In this post I will be explaining how to run the Simple Linear Regression (Ordinary Least Square) to create the model using Eviews 7.0. Eviews is especially strong in analysis of time series data so for the purpose of elaborating the process we will be using the time series data of the GTI and Remittance of Pakistan for last thirty years from 1981 to 2010.

The process starts by opening a new file of Eviews. Here are the steps:

1. Open the new Eviews File.
 


2. Specify the time period from 1981 to 2010.

3. Now specify the variables, rem for remittance and gti for grand total investment. Write data rem gti in the space provided for this purpose.
 

4. This will make a table that will have space for the two variables, now copy and paste the data from excel sheet to this table.



5. Now go to Quick, Equation Estimate and write the expression defining the relation between the two variables. Write: gti c rem
 


6.  Press ok to run the test. The results are viewed in a separate window. So here are the results:

RESULTS

Dependent Variable: GTI


Method: Least Squares


Date: 01/08/14   Time: 11:39


Sample: 1981 2010


Included observations: 30












Variable
Coefficient
Std. Error
t-Statistic
Prob.  










C
1008870.
335774.6
3.004605
0.0056
REM
-66900.59
59901.53
-1.116843
0.2736










R-squared
0.042648
    Mean dependent var
665670.2
Adjusted R-squared
0.008457
    S.D. dependent var
744393.0
S.E. of regression
741238.7
    Akaike info criterion
29.93437
Sum squared resid
1.54E+13
    Schwarz criterion
30.02779
Log likelihood
-447.0156
    Hannan-Quinn criter.
29.96426
F-statistic
1.247338
    Durbin-Watson stat
0.095653
Prob(F-statistic)
0.273554













Interpretation of Results:

The equation can be formed using the coefficients. In our case it will be GTI = 1008870 – 66900.59 REM.     

Prob. Value explains that percentage of error in the coefficients, C has 0.56% error while REM has 27.36% error. R-Squared value states that our model is explained 4% by this equation (this is really undesirable; we need this value to be 50%+ range). F-Statics explains the combined effect of two variables and Prob (F-Statistic) states there are 27% chances of error in this estimate. Durbin Watson stat explains the autocorrelation exists on at 0.09; we can use LM Test to further confirm its existence.

Overall the model is poorly explained by the regression line, in such a case we either need to add more independent variables that explain further the relationship or take data for a longer time period to examine the relation. This was all about the post. You can download the sample files and try at your end.


Download EViews Sample File from here.

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