This section describes the views and procedures of a group object. A group object is a collection of series which you wish to treat as a single unit. With a group, you can compute various statistics that describe the relationship between the series and display them in various forms such as spreadsheets, tables, and graphs.

To create a group object, you may select the desired series in the workfile, then right-mouse click and select Open/as Group. Alternately, you may enter the keyword group on the command line, followed by the name to be given the group object, then the list of series and series expressions to be placed in the group.

The remainder of this chapter assumes that you are already familiar with the basics of working with a group. See the documentation of EViews features beginning with “Object Basics” for relevant details on the basic operations.