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| Econometrics software available for the UCSC Economics Department Home This document presents a brief overview of the following econometrics/mathematics/statistics software packages available in the UCSC Economics department. In addition 2 TeX packages and a program to convert data are available. Use of this software is limited to members of the Economics department. In some cases, our software licenses are strictly limited for classroom/instructional use only, research use is prohibited. In these cases faculty, lecturers and visitors conducting research must obtain their own separate license. All software is available from PCs within the Economics department. In most cases, the software is installed on the PC itself, and no network connection or login to the department server, barter, is necessary. In other cases, the software is installed on barter, and a network connection and barter login is required. Shortcuts for all software have been placed in a folder named 'Applications'. There should be a shortcut to the Applications folder on the desktop. If the software is only installed on barter, the label for the software's icon will list (winapps on barter). In these cases, use 'My Network Places' to log into \\barter\winapps with your barter account name and password, and then run the program. Software manuals are kept in the grad student's mail room (room 410). There is a signout sheet if you wish to take a manual back to your office. Software manuals should not be removed from the department. STATAStata is an interactive data analysis program which runs on a variety of platforms. The most current release, Intercooled Stata 9.1, is available on barter from all the computers in faculty and graduate student offices. Stata can be used to enter and interactively edit data, for both simple and complex statistical analysis. Commands can be executed one at a time from the Stata prompt, or groups of commands can be entered into ado-files which can then be executed all at once.Stata is one of the programs which is installed in Barter's 'winapps' folder (\\barter.ucsc.edu\winapps). It is not installed on the PC's hard disk, so it's necessary to log on to barter to use the program. Use 'My Network Places' to connect to \\barter\winapps (you will need your barter login and password), then select the Stata 9 icon in the Applications folder, or click the icon in the Stata9 folder for the executable file ( \\barter\winapps\Stata9\wstata.exe). The department's Stata license is for classroom use only. Research use is prohibited. Individual licenses may be purchased at a reduced price through the Stata/UCSC Method 3 Grad Plan. Contact Dave Carlson for details. For more information visit Stata's website. Some useful Stata Links: EVIEWSEViews is a user friendly program that does not require the user to memorize command syntax. It uses an object-oriented user interface.Main Features:
EViews 5.1 is installed in Barter's 'winapps' folder (\\barter.ucsc.edu\winapps). Log on to barter to use the program. Use 'My Network Places' to connect to \\barter\winapps, then select the EViews 5 icon in the Applications folder, or click the icon in the EViews5 folder for the executable file ( \\barter\winapps\eviews5\Eviews5.exe). For more information visit the EViews website. Students may purchase a student version of EViews 4.1 at a reduced price (this version does not have the full capabilities of EViews 5.
EViews Support webpage RATSRATS (Regression Analysis of Time Series) is a fast, efficient, and comprehensive time series analysis and econometrics software package. The Windows version features an interactive editor that allows you to create, test, and run RATS programs; view, save, and print text and graphs; access on-line help; and much more.The editor also includes menu-driven Wizards for many tasks, including reading in data, running regressions, doing hypothesis tests, graphing results, and more.CATS, an add-on for RATS, is a suite of procedures written in the RATS language that implement the Johansen-Juselius cointegration analysis testing and estimation methodology. Our current version of RATS is 6.10. The CATS add-on is installed for RATS. WinRATS is installed in Barter's 'winapps' folder (\\barter.ucsc.edu\winapps). Log on to barter to use the program. Use 'My Network Places' to connect to \\barter\winapps, then select the WinRATS icon in the Applications folder, or click the icon in the WinRATS6 folder for the executable file ( \\barter\winapps\winrats6\rats32s.exe). For more information visit the RATS website, or their FAQ's TSPTSP is a complete language for the estimation and simulation of econometric models. TSP stands for "Time Series Processor" although it is also commonly used with cross section and panel data. TSP 5.0 is available on all the computers in the faculty and graduate student offices. It is not necessary to log on to barter to use TSP.Main Features:
See various TSP tutorials: For more information visit TSP International or their FAQ page. MATLABMatLab is a high-level technical computing language and interactive environment for algorithm development, data visualization, data analysis, and numerical computation. Using MATLAB, you can solve technical computing problems faster than with traditional programming languages, such as C, C++, and Fortran. Our current version is 7.1 (with Simulink 6.3) (aka release 14, sp 3).MatLab is available on all the computers in the faculty and graduate student offices. It is not necessary to log on to barter to use MatLab. Our MatLab license is for classroom use only. Research use is prohibited. Main Features:
Matlab may be accessed by clicking on the Matlab icon on the desktop of the computers in the graduate student offices.
See various MatLab tutorials: For more information visit Mathworks or their support website. SASSAS is an extremely powerful and full featured program and can handle easily extremely large datasets. While earlier versions of SAS required the user to have detailed knowledge of SAS programming syntax, the current version is much more user friendly. The current version of SAS has a substantially enhanced windows-driven interface that allows the user to point and click your way through many tasks that previously required knowledge of SAS programming. Our current version is 9.12.SAS is available on all the computers in the faculty and graduate student offices. It is not necessary to log on to barter to use SAS. Unix users may also access SAS on barter. This is the UNIX version of SAS and does not offer a GUI interface. Programs are written and then submitted in 'batch' mode. SAS data from Windows must be converted into Unix SAS data. Our data transfer program, StatTrans (available on all grad PCs), will do this (and many other) transformation. Users running huge datasets are encouraged to consider the greatly enhanced processing power of SAS on barter. We have version 8.2 of UNIX SAS on barter. SAS maintains extensive online documentation on their website. Reach their technical support website. at http://support.sas.com/, where a technical support request may be submitted. For more information visit SAS. RR is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is a GNU project which is similar to the S language and environment which was developed at Bell Laboratories (formerly AT&T, now Lucent Technologies) by John Chambers and colleagues. R can be considered as a different implementation of S. There are some important differences, but much code written for S runs unaltered under R.R provides a wide variety of statistical (linear and nonlinear modeling, classical statistical tests, time-series analysis, classification, clustering, ...) and graphical techniques, and is highly extensible. The S language is often the vehicle of choice for research in statistical methodology, and R provides an Open Source route to participation in that activity. R is an integrated suite of software facilities for data manipulation, calculation and graphical display. It includes
R is available on all the computers in the faculty and graduate student offices. It is not necessary to log on to barter to use R. The R manual is available for download on their website GAUSSGAUSS is a programming language designed to operate with and on matrices. It is a general purpose tool.On a spectrum which runs from the computer language C at one end to menu-driven econometric programs like EViews at the other, GAUSS is very much at the programming end. Main Features:
Gauss is available on all the computers in the faculty and graduate student offices. It is not necessary to log on to barter to use Gauss. Our current version is 3.2.38. We have 3 toolboxes for Gauss:
For more information visit Gauss or their FAQ page. Some useful Gauss Links:
LIMDEPLIMDEP is an integrated program for estimation and analysis of linear and nonlinear models, with cross section, time series and panel data. The main feature is a suite of more than 100 built-in estimators for all forms of the linear regression model, and stochastic frontier, discrete choice and limited dependent variable models, including models for binary, censored, truncated, survival, count, discrete and continuous variables and a variety of sample selection models.Our current version of LIMDEP is 7. Limdep is available on all the computers in the faculty and graduate student offices. It is not necessary to log on to barter to use LimDep. View an interactive Limdep tutorial presentation. For more information visit the Limdep website. or their support page. MAPLEMaple is a complete mathematical problem-solving environment that supports a wide variety of mathematical operations such as numerical analysis, symbolic algebra, and graphics. It can also be used to solve problems involving calculus, precalculus, Differential equations (ODEs, PDEs), Linear algebra and high performance matrix computation. Our current version is 9.03.Maple is available on all the computers in the faculty and graduate student offices. It is not necessary to log on to barter to use Maple. See a introductory website on Maple from Univ. of Texas, or the Univ. of Illinois. For more information visit Maple or their FAQ page. MIKTEXMiKTeX is an open-source, up-to-date implementation of the TeX typesetting system and related programs for Windows (all current versions).MiKTeXs main features include:
The MiKTeX distribution consists of the following components:
TEXNICTeXNiC is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for writing TeX/LaTeX-documents on Microsoft Windows platforms. It provides a lot of enhanced features like structure parsing, project management, syntax highlighting, etc. It is used as a 'front-end' for MiKTeX.The most important features include:
TeXNic is available on all the computers in the faculty and graduate student offices. It may be accessed by clicking on the TexNic icon in the Applications folder. See the TeXNiC Center FAQ page. SCIENTIFIC WORDScientific Word is used to compose mathematical, scientific, and technical documents at the keyboard using natural mathematical notation. Choose whether to publish your document on the Web using HTML or PDF or print it with or without LaTeX typesetting.The Economics Department has licenses for an older version (3.51) of Scientific Word. The software is installed on one PC in each of the 2nd-5th year PhD offices. At this point, there is no plan to obtain further updates of Scientific Word. STATTRANSStatTrans is used to convert data from one software package to another. Supported packages include Excel, MatLab, SAS (including unix SAS to windows SAS), Access, Gauss, LimDep, Stata, SPSS, S-Plus and others.Conversions are done with menus. Choose the dataset to be converted, choose the software type of the data (e.g., Stata), then choose the desired output type of the data (e.g., Excel). StatTrans may be accessed by clicking on the StatTrans icon in the Applications folder of the computers in the graduate student offices. See the StatTrans FAQ page.
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