Econometrics has traditionally been performed on command driven programs that have often been difficult to use, requiring users to edit data in one program, plot charts in another and perform analysis in yet another. All these components become difficult to co-ordinate. The Professional edition of SHAZAM provides an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) allowing users to perform all these tasks from one easy to use application. Users may create datasets, matrices, command files, or plots and create, import or edit datasets created with other programs, all from within SHAZAM.  Using the SHAZAM Wizards it is easy to create or execute commands with the click of a mouse providing true menu driven capabilities that complement SHAZAM's comprehensive programming abilities.

• An easy to use Integrated Development Environment (IDE) designed to make econometrics easier to perform.
• SHAZAM Wizards for the immediate execution of SHAZAM Procedures or the construction or editing of command statements.

• Online Help provides HTML help, sample data, command files and a command reference for use in SHAZAM.
• A Project Viewer - allowing you to keep all components built with SHAZAM together for easy viewing, editing and modification.

• An advanced Command Editor - Providing 3 different ways of executing commands - by batch, by stepping through line by line or interactively as you type your commands. Syntax coloring is used as a visual aid to ensuring you have entered the correct commands. Multiple level undo allows you to wind back mistakes.

• Integrated Graph Editor and Viewer - Use the powerful GNUPLOT to create graphs either programmatically or using the Graph Wizard and then view graphs from within SHAZAM using the graph properties dialog for modifying graph features.

• Data Editor - Create or edit datasets or generate new variables visually in an easy to use spreadsheet style grid. This grid supports the viewing of very large datasets (limited only by system memory). Datasets created/imported and added to a project can be set to be automatically read by SHAZAM when executing command files.

• Advanced Data Connector (ADC) - Used to import data into SHAZAM. SHAZAM Professional Edition comes with drivers available for most common Windows machine data formats such as Excel, Access, Foxpro, dBASE and Paradox.  Connecting to suitable large Database Management Systems (DBMS) such as SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase or Informix can also be done across the LAN, WAN or via the Internet.  Other data source drivers are available from Microsoft or the data provider.

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