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Download EViews 7 User's Guide II
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Working with Panel Data—633 To create links containing the desired summaries, first click on the original panel page tab to make it active, select one or more series of interest, then right mouse click and select Copy. Next, click on either the firm or the annual page, right mouse click, and select Paste Special.... Alternately, right-click to select the series then drag the selected series onto the tab for the destination page. EViews will open the Link Dialog, prompting you to specify a method for summarizing the data. Suppose, for example, that you select the C01, F, and I series from the panel page and then Paste Special... in the firm page. In this case, EViews analyzes the two pages, and determines that most likely, we wish to match merge the contracted data from the first page into the second page. Accordingly, EViews sets the Merge by setting to General match merge criteria, and prefills the Source ID and Destination ID series with two FN cross-section ID series. The default Contraction method is set to compute the mean values of the series for each value of the ID. You may provide a different pattern to be used in naming the link series, a contraction method, and a sample over which the contraction should be calculated. Here, we create new series with the same names as the originals, computing means over the entire sample in the panel page. Click on OK to All to link all three series into the firm page, yielding:
