Re: st: comparing capabilities of Econometric softwares

[Ernest Berkhout <ernestb@seo.fee.uva.nl>]

At 17:22 17-12-2003, Kimberley Tran wrote:
> Greetings to everyone,
>
>  Notwithstanding bouts of frustration by Stata, I am an devoted user of the
> software. However, just out of curiosity what are the strenths and weaknesses
> of Stata in comparison to softwares such as Shazam and Eviews? If anyone has
> ever used either Shazam and Eviews please offer your comments about their
> capabilities as well.
My 10 cts:
One fo the key features of Stata (and SPSS and SAS) that I miss in Eviews 
is the reproducibility and the logging of the analyses. Advantage of Eviews 
over Stata is the possibility to estimate Johansen-tests, then run your 
model and after that create post-estimation graphs easily. I was not able 
(but I might be ignorant here) to do that in Stata.


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