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SPSS Statistics

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Age-adjusted proportions in CSTabulate (SPSS Complex samples)

For the time being, CSTabulate procedure in IBM SPSS Complex samples module provides crude proportions and many statistics associated with them. It would be very useful if CSTabulates could also compute age-adjusted proportions, their standard err...
about 7 years ago in SPSS Statistics 1 Not under consideration

suggestion for codebook command

SPSS codebook subcommand could use min and max in it.
about 7 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

SPSS Sentinel License Manager log info

"lsmon" does not provide any information about the real IP of the clients but only the netbios information are provided.In an installation of several hundred clients distributed in dozens of VLANs (non active directory) it is impossible to know to...
about 7 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

SPSS Sentinel License Manager and extra modules

We have a number of users for SPSS. We use the concurrent license that works with the Sentinel License Manager (SLM). Now it is so that we also use additional modules, such as: bootstrapping, Exact Tests, Advanced Statistics, and we make these mod...
over 7 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Cloud Access using syntax

Our company is moving to a cloud. I need to be able to use SPSS base on cloud located files. I have tried using a mapped drive but it was slow and inconsistent. I use syntax to get and save files all day. I need to be able to do my job when we hav...
over 7 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Sharepoint support

When accessing SharePoint from within SPSS, for example to open or save files, SPSS is extremely slow (much slower then other programs).
over 7 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Add more date and time formats

Please do add more date and time formats to the "Variable Type" and Syntax commands. Microsoft Office Excel do support all kind of varieties, SPSS Statistics should too! I know that many users have to engage in complicated string transformation, t...
over 7 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

enhancing the procedure for estimating alpha Reliability

I just sent an article ms. related to reliability estimation. One of the main (accidental) results is that the procedure used in SPSS (listwise omitting) is misleading and VERY unstable against the missing values. When using the listwise selection...
over 7 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Allow regression parameters to be entered in scientific format through GUI dialog box

When performing nonlinear regression (and possibly elsewhere) it is currently only possible to enter initial parameter estimates in the range -99999 to 999999. If a starting value outside this range is desired, it must be entered by editing the sy...
over 7 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Text output line functionality in SPSS version 23 and later when using Macros

After being in contact with your technical support it turns out that in previous versions -- eg, Statistics 21.0 -- the text output line was produced with each and every procedure when using a Macro function. In Statistics version 23 and 24, this ...
over 7 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration