G7 Users’ Guide

• Getting Started
  • What is G7?
  • Installation
  • Starting G7
  • Looking at a Series in a Data Bank
  • The G7 Editor
  • The G7 Command Reference
  • The 11 Basic G7 Commands
  • Conventions
  • Basic Regression
  • Command Files and the G7 Editor
  • Saving Results
  • Setting Graph Styles
  • Command Files Within Command Files
  • Setting the Properties of the Results Area
• Data Banks
  • Assigned Data Banks
  • The Workspace Bank: Making, Compressing, and Splicing Banks
• G7 Commands and Scripts
  • Dates and Frequencies
  • Forming Variables
  • G7 Functions
  • Command Files, Groups, and Do Loops
  • Flow Control
  • User-specified Error Handling
  • Strings in G7
  • Variables and Arguments in G7
  • Reading Data Into G7
  • Writing ASCII Data From G7
  • How To Read and Write in Excel Format with G7
  • Examples For Using the XL Commands
  • Writing Data To Lotus WK1
  • Making Tables
  • Drawing Graphs
  • Miscellaneous Commands and Other Information
• Regression in G7
  • Ordinary Regression
  • Soft Constraints
  • Distributed Lags
  • Regression Tests
  • Hildreth-Lu Technique for Autocorrelation Correction
  • ARIMA Techniques
  • Seemingly Unrelated Regressions
  • Common-Coefficient, Panel-Data, or Pooled Regressions
  • Non-linear Regression
  • 2SLS and 3SLS
• Modeling with G7
  • Building a Model
  • Running a Model - Deterministic Simulation
  • Optimizing a Model
  • Stochastic Simulation
  • Graphing Model Results
  • Tabulating Model Results or Data
  • Model Building
  • Running an InterDyme Model in G7
• Vectors And Matrices
  • Working with Vam Files in G7
  • The Vam Configuration File
  • Creating, Assigning, Setting Defaults, and Closing a Vam File
  • Input of Time Series into Vam Files
  • Input of Vectors into Vam Files
  • Input of Matrices to Vam Files
  • Display of Vam File Data
  • Vector Calculations
  • Matrix Calculations in VAM files
  • Groups of Sector Numbers
  • The Resector Command
  • Linear Interpolation of Vectors and Matrices
  • Moving Vectors and Matrices by Indexing
  • Methods of Scaling
  • The Scale Command
  • The Ctrl Command
  • Methods of Balancing Matrices
  • Matrix Balancing by the Ordinary RAS Method
  • Balancing Matrices with Uncertain Totals
  • Balancing Entire Input-Output Tables
  • Balancing Matrices with Externally Imposed Preconditions
  • The Coef, Flow, Getsum, Load, and Store Commands
  • Writing Vam File Data to ASCII Files
  • Titles for Vam Files
  • Regressions on Industry Data
  • Vam2Vam – Selective Copying From One Vam File to Another
  • VamToG – Creating a G7 bank From Series in a Vam File
• Other G7 Documentation