OxMetrics - GiveWin

Contents

What is new?
Definition
Key Features
GiveWin Tour
Training and Consulting
Demo Copy
Technical Information
Price List and Order Information

What is new?

Version 2.1 released in March 2002. Request a CD update now or download now

2002 Training Programme is now available.

What is GiveWin™ (by Jurgen A. Doornik and David F. Hendry)?

GiveWin™ is the front-end for all the members of the OxMetrics family. GiveWin provides:

  • GiveWin displays reports and graphics, which can be manipulated on screen, offers a calculator and algebraic language for transforming data, and enables the user to open multiple databases.
  • A batch language allows for the automation of many of these tasks.
  • GiveWin provides nearly 50 types of graphs, ranging from time-series plots to cross-plots, ACF, density, 3-D plots, automatic graphing of logs and growth rates, seasonal subplots, error fans and many others.
    Facilities for publication quality graphics include LaTeX-style text to allow mathematics in a graph, as well as black and white mode.

For example:

The edit window in GiveWin is based on OxEdit technology, allowing for unlimited undo/redo, column editing and sorting, and syntax highlighting for Ox, TSP and Gauss™ code. Users with the necessary programming skills can develop their own statistical modules for GiveWin (this is especially easy to do with Ox Professional)

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Key Features

  • Data Handling
    • The data handling system provides convenient storage of large datasets with easy loading to PcGive either as a unit, or for subsamples or subsets of variables
    • Excel and Lotus spreadsheet files can be loaded directly, or using 'cut and paste' facilities
    • Large datasets can be analysed, with as many variables and observations as memory allows
    • Database variables can be transformed by a calculator, or by entering mathematical formulae in an editor with easy storage for re-use; the database is easily viewed, incorrect observations are simple to revise, and variables can be documented on line
    • Appending across datasets is simple, and the data used for estimation can be any subset of the data in the database
    • Several data sets can be open simultaneously, with easy switching between the database
  • Graphics
    • GiveWin provides easy adjustment of graph types, layout and colours
    • As many as 36 graphs can be shown simultaneously, with easy usr control or automatic selection
    • Graphs can be documented and edited via direct screen access with reading from the graph
    • Time series and cross-plots are supported with flexible adjustment and scaling options, including several bivariate linear regression lines with joint presentation of reverse regressions, or non-parametric fits, as well as spectra, correlograms, histograms and data densities
    • Descriptive results, recursive statistics, diagnostic tests, likelihood projections and forecasts can be graphed in many combinations
    • Users have full control over screen and graph colours
    • Much of PcGive's output is provided in graphical form which is why it is written as an interactive (and not a batch) program. Dozens of time series can be graphed together using a wide range of adjustment and prescaling options.
    • and more ...
  • Output
    • Graphs can be saved in several formats including for later recall, further editing, and printing, or for importing into many popular word processors, as well as directly by 'cut and paste'
    • Results window information can be saved as an ASCII (human readable) document for input to most word processors, or directly input by 'cut and paste'

Model residuals and recursive output can be stored in the database for additional graphs or evaluation

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GiveWin Tour

The small tour of GiveWin features is described in the PcGive website - Getting Started. To return to our Web, press BACK in your browser toolbar or use the Timberlake Consultants side frame.

Technical Information

Current version - 2.1

Operating System - Windows NT/2000, 95/98/ME/XP

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Last revised: 6/26/2003