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Search results: SPSS Statistics

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Add dummy coding option in Linear regression dialog box

Linear regression is one of the most used functions in SPSS. Nonetheless, when dummy coding is required, you have to manually code the categories and then run the model. please make a categories option for Linear regression, such as the one in bin...
5 months ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Submitted

SPSS compatibility with Python

When implementing Python code in SPSS Syntax, using BEGIN PROGRAM, under some conditions, SPSS will enter a silent error if the code has bugs or syntax errors. SPSS does not reflect the error as other IDEs do, and will not release the processor un...
5 months ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Submitted

On restrictions on String variables used for 'Grouping Valiable' of 'Independent-Samples T test'

About 'Grouping Valiable' of 'Independent-Samples T test'. Improvement request I would like to use Long String (eg 24 bytes) as 'Grouping Valiable'. In the case of String variable, only variables that variable width is 8 or less can be input to [G...
over 6 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Bug report: entering codes for missing values

I am running SPSS v29 under a concurrent license. Entering negative numbers for user defined missing values does not work now, neither in the Variable View or in Data&Define Varpiable Properties.
about 2 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Add Coding for Inferential Testing for SPSS Quantile Regression Coefficients

Anyone who wants to use Quantile Regression (QR) must conduct inferential tests for differences among the beta coefficients across quantiles. Without these tests, QR cannot be interpreted for research purposes (unless you have a population of data...
about 2 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Spell check for comments in syntax editor

When commenting syntax in SPSS it's very frustrating that it doesn't spell-check (even the web browser I'm using does this!). This should be applied narrowly to comments only. At the moment, if I'm heavily commenting code, I will copy/paste it to ...
over 7 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

ROC Analysis should detect and correct dependent variable direction

When running a ROC curve analysis, some of the input curves appear below the null hypothesis. This can be corrected by inverting the values in the independent variable (that is, they were coded opposite the dependent). However, other statistics so...
about 8 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Allow for at least 3500 locations in spatio-temporal modeler

Many analyst look at county-level data of the whole nation when performing research (i.e. ~3200 counties). Analyzing parts of the country within themselves (if we were to break up the counties into regions) is not telling very much. Others look at...
about 9 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Need documentation for Statistics Server failure codes when jobstep submitted from C&DS

Sometimes an SPSS Statistics jobstep submitted from C&DS fails. In the output log for C&DS all that the end user knows is that the job failed and they see error codes like "-1", "-2", "-3", etc. However there is no documentation on what th...
almost 11 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Display current number of activations in the SPSS License Key Center

Currently the number of licenses that were requested during the generation of the authorization code does not change after that number has been increased by the IBM support
almost 6 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration