EViews vs gratia
EViews
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| Figure | EViews | gratia |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $59.95/mo | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 6 | 0 |
| Spec score · Statistical Analysis Software | 8.9 (#5) | 7.4 (#73) |
| Audience | The maker describes EViews as serving academic researchers, corporations, government agencies, and students. | The overview describes gratia as helping people work with GAMs in the tidyverse, where this can otherwise be tedious or difficult without understanding GAMs and mgcv model objects. |
| Bayesian analysis | Yes | Yes |
| Deployment | desktop | desktop |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Integrations | The EViews feature list describes COM automation, integration with MATLAB, R, and Python, and a Microsoft Excel add-in. | The official getting-started guide demonstrates using gratia with mgcv, ggplot2, and dplyr. |
| Regression models | Yes | Yes |
| Scripting support | Yes | Yes |
| Statistical tests | Yes | Yes |
| Support | Single-user support covers installation, registration, and moving a license; it excludes business consulting and help with modeling or econometric theory. | The project links to GitHub to report bugs and provides a contributing guide and code of conduct. |
Plans
EViews
- Academic Single-User License$700 a month
- Commercial Single-User License$2,450 a month
- EViews 14 Student Version LiteFree
- EViews 14 University Edition$59.95 a month
- EViews 14 Academic Single-User License$700, paid once
- EViews 14 Commercial Single-User License$2,450, paid once
In their own words
EViews
EViews is desktop software for statistical, time-series, forecasting and modeling work, presented through an object-oriented interface. It provides data management, econometric and statistical analysis, forecasts, simulations, graphs and tables, with support for regression models, statistical tests, scripting and Bayesian analysis. Import formats include Excel, Access, R, SAS Transport, SPSS, Stata, Tableau, ASCII text and binary, HTML and ODBC. EViews 14 adds JDemetra+ seasonal adjustment, Facebook Prophet, quantile ARDL estimation and outlier detection. Its listed integrations include COM automation, MATLAB, R, Python and a Microsoft Excel add-in; downloadable add-ins, user objects and libraries can extend it. EViews runs on Windows and macOS, but the 30-day EViews 14 demo is limited to physical Windows computers and is unavailable for Mac. Student Version Lite is free, but cannot save workfiles or export data to other formats and needs internet access at least once every 10 days to launch. Listed licenses include academic and commercial single-user options.
gratia
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