Data Analysis with Comprehensive Statistics Software

Solve business and research problems using SPSS for Windows, a statistical and data
management package for analysts and researchers.

SPSS for Windows provides you with a broad range of capabilities for the entire
analytical process. With SPSS, you can generate decision-making information quickly
using powerful statistics, understand and effectively present your results with high-
quality tabular and graphical output, and share your results with others using a variety
of reporting methods, including secure Web publishing. Results from your data
analysis enable you to make smarter decisions more quickly by uncovering key facts,
patterns, and trends. An optional server version delivers enterprise-strength
scalability, additional tools, security, and enhanced performance.

You can use SPSS for Windows in a variety of areas, including:

 Survey and market research and direct marketing

 Academia
 Administrative research, human resources, and resource planning
 Medical, scientific, clinical, and social science research
 Planning and forecasting
 Quality improvement
 Reporting and ad hoc decision making
 Enterprise-level analytic application development

In particular, apply SPSS statistics software to gain greater insight into the actions,
attributes, and attitudes of people—your customers, employees, students, or citizens.

Add more Functionality as you need it

SPSS for Windows is a modular, tightly integrated, full-featured product line for the
analytical process—planning, data collecting, data access, data management and
preparation, data analysis, reporting, and deployment. Using a combination of add-on
modules and stand-alone software that work seamlessly with SPSS Base enhances the
capabilities of this statistics software. The intuitive interface makes it easy to use—yet
it gives you all of the data management, statistics, and reporting methods you need to
do a wide range of analysis.
Gain Unlimited Programming Capabilities

Dramatically increase the power and capabilities of SPSS for Windows by using the
SPSS Programmability Extension™. This feature enables analytic and application
developers to extend the SPSS command syntax language to create procedures and
applications—and perform even the most complex jobs—within SPSS. The SPSS
Programmability Extension is included with SPSS Base, making this statistics
software an even more powerful solution.

Employ Data throughout your Enterprise

For enterprise users, SPSS for Windows provides sophisticated capabilities so that
you can use analytics throughout your organization. Use the SPSS Adapter to
integrate SPSS for Windows into the SPSS Predictive Enterprise Services™ platform.
This platform provides centralized, secure, auditable storage of your analytical assets
—enabling you to use data more productively and consistently across your
organization. For an enterprise-wide analytical solution, use SPSS Server

Overview

SPSS Statistics provides a powerful statistical-analysis and data-management system

in a graphical environment, using descriptive menus and simple dialog boxes to do
most of the work for you. Most tasks can be accomplished simply by pointing and
clicking the mouse.

In addition to the simple point-and-click interface for statistical analysis, SPSS

Statistics provides:

Data Editor. The Data Editor is a versatile spreadsheet-like system for defining,
entering, editing, and displaying data.

Viewer. The Viewer makes it easy to browse your results, selectively show and hide
output, change the display order results, and move presentation-quality tables and
charts to and from other applications.

Multidimensional pivot tables. Your results come alive with multidimensional pivot
tables. Explore your tables by rearranging rows, columns, and layers. Uncover
important findings that can get lost in standard reports. Compare groups easily by
splitting your table so that only one group is displayed at a time.
High-resolution graphics. High-resolution, full-color pie charts, bar charts,
histograms, scatterplots, 3-D graphics, and more are included as standard features.

Database access. Retrieve information from databases by using the Database Wizard
instead of complicated SQL queries.

Data transformations. Transformation features help get your data ready for analysis.
You can easily subset data; combine categories; add, aggregate, merge, split, and
transpose files; and more.

Command language. Although most tasks can be accomplished with simple point-
and-click gestures, SPSS Statistics also provides a powerful command language that
allows you to save and automate many common tasks. The command language also
provides some functionality that is not found in the menus and dialog boxes.

Complete command syntax documentation is integrated into the overall Help system
and is available as a separate PDF document, Command Syntax Reference, which is
also available from the Help menu.

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New Syntax Editor. The syntax editor has been completely redesigned with features
such as auto-completion, color coding, bookmarks, and breakpoints. Auto-completion
provides you with a list of valid command names, subcommands, and keywords; so
you’ll spend less time referring to syntax charts. Color coding allows you to quickly
spot unrecognized terms as well as some common syntactical errors. Bookmarks
allow you to quickly navigate large command syntax files. Breakpoints allow you to
stop execution at specified points so you can inspect data or output before proceeding.
See Using the Syntax Editor for more information.

Custom Dialog Builder. The Custom Dialog Builder allows you to create and manage
custom dialogs for generating command syntax. You can create custom dialogs to
generate syntax from multiple commands, including custom extension commands
implemented in Python or R. See Creating and Managing Custom Dialogs for more
information.
Multiple language support. In addition to the ability to change the output language
available in previous releases, you can now change the user interface language. See
General Options for more information.
Codebook. The Codebook procedure reports the dictionary information -- such as
variable names, variable labels, value labels, missing values -- and summary statistics
for all or specified variables and multiple response sets in the active dataset. For
nominal and ordinal variables and multiple response sets, summary statistics include
counts and percents. For scale variables, summary statistics include mean, standard
deviation, and quartiles. See Codebook for more information.

Nearest Neighbor analysis. Nearest Neighbor analysis is a method for classifying

cases based on their similarity to other cases. In machine learning, it was developed as
a way to recognize patterns of data without requiring an exact match to any stored
patterns, or cases. Similar cases are near each other and dissimilar cases are distant
from each other. Thus, the distance between two cases is a measure of their
dissimilarity. See Nearest Neighbor Analysis for more information.

Multiple Imputation. The Multiple Imputation procedure performs multiple

imputation of missing data values. Given a dataset containing missing values, it
outputs one or more datasets in which missing values are replaced with plausible
estimates. You can then obtain pooled results when running other procedures. The
procedure also summarizes missing values in the working dataset. This feature is
available in the Missing Values add-on option. See Impute Missing Data Values
(Multiple Imputation) for more information.

RFM analysis. RFM (recency, frequency, monetary) analysis is a technique used to

identify existing customers who are most likely to respond to a new offer. This
technique is commonly used in direct marketing. This feature is available in the EZ
RFM add-on option. See RFM Analysis for more information.

Categorical Regression enhancements. Categorical Regression has been enhanced to

include regularization and resampling methods to assess and improve prediction
accuracy. Together, these new methods make it possible to create state-of-the-art
models, even for high-volume data (where there are more variables than observations,
such as in genomics). This feature is available in the Categories add-on option. See
Categorical Regression (CATREG) for more information.

Graphboard. Graphboard visualizations are graphs, charts, and plots created from a
visualization template. SPSS Statistics ships with built-in visualization templates. You
can also use a separate product, SPSS Viz Designer, to create your own visualization
templates. The new visualization templates are effectively custom visualization types.
See Creating and Editing Graphboard Visualizations for more information.
Exporting Output. More output export format options and more control over exported
content, including:
• Wrap or shrink wide table in Word documents. See Word/RTF Options for more
information.
• Create new worksheets or append data to existing worksheets in an Excel workbook.
See Excel Options for more information.
• Save output export specifications in the form of command syntax with the OUTPUT
EXPORT command. All the features for exporting output in the Export Output dialog
are now also available in command syntax; so you can save and re-run your export
specifications and include them in automated production jobs. See OUTPUT
EXPORT for more information.
• The Output Management System (OMS) now supports these additional output
formats: Word, Excel, and PDF. See Output Management System for more
information.
Shift Values. Shift Values creates new variables that contain the values of existing
variables from preceding (lag) or subsequent (lead) cases. See Shift Values for more
information.
Aggregate enhancements. You can now use the features of the Aggregate procedure
without specifying a break variable. See Aggregate Data for more information.
Median function. A median function is now available for computing the median value
across selected variables for each case. See Statistical Functions for more information.

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There are a number of different types of windows in SPSS Statistics:

Data Editor. The Data Editor displays the contents of the data file. You can create
new data files or modify existing data files with the Data Editor. If you have more
than one data file open, there is a separate Data Editor window for each data file.

Viewer. All statistical results, tables, and charts are displayed in the Viewer. You can
edit the output and save it for later use. A Viewer window opens automatically the
first time you run a procedure that generates output.

Pivot Table Editor. Output that is displayed in pivot tables can be modified in many
ways with the Pivot Table Editor. You can edit text, swap data in rows and columns,
add color, create multidimensional tables, and selectively hide and show results.

Chart Editor. You can modify high-resolution charts and plots in chart windows.
You can change the colors, select different type fonts or sizes, switch the horizontal
and vertical axes, rotate 3-D scatterplots, and even change the chart type.
Text Output Editor. Text output that is not displayed in pivot tables can be modified
with the Text Output Editor. You can edit the output and change font characteristics
(type, style, color, size).

Syntax Editor. You can paste your dialog box choices into a syntax window, where
your selections appear in the form of command syntax. You can then edit the
command syntax to use special features that are not available through dialog boxes.
You can save these commands in a file for use in subsequent sessions.

Designated Window versus Active Window

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If you have more than one open Viewer window, output is routed to the designated
Viewer window. If you have more than one open Syntax Editor window, command
syntax is pasted into the designated Syntax Editor window. The designated windows
are indicated by a plus sign in the icon in the title bar. You can change the designated
windows at any time.

The designated window should not be confused with the active window, which is the
currently selected window. If you have overlapping windows, the active window
appears in the foreground. If you open a window, that window automatically becomes
the active window and the designated window.