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A Guide to the StatFact EViews Add-in

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This is a short paper which details the user-written StatFact add-in released by IHS on November 10, 2014. The first section introduces and explains the motivation behind the development of the add-in, the second section details the econometric procedures undertaken and the third provides guidance on the use of the software. The fourth section outlines two empirical examples, and the fifth suggests possible implementations and further developments.

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  1. Available at http://www.eviews.com/Addins/StatFact.aipz.

  2. The data for Sect. 4.2 are available as part of the replication files of this guide, and .m files at http://www.runmycode.org/coder/view/151.

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Rahal, C. A Guide to the StatFact EViews Add-in. Comput Econ 48, 183–188 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10614-015-9507-6

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