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SPSS Statistics

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EMM table in MIXED procedure

The EMM tables in MIXED procedure does not print the cell N's, only other descriptives related to the EMMs. The N's are needed for reports. The descriptive option contains the N's but when there are numerous factors in the model, it is very confus...
over 8 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

More outputs in Descriptive Statistics option (called by right mouse button on variable name)

It would be nice, if the Descriptive Statistics option (called by right mouse button on variable name) gave more than basics statistics in table - for example relevant chart which is define by Measure (nominal - bar or pie chart, scale histogram)....
over 8 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Setting Seeds

I want to do model testing while always drawing the same training data with the help of a random variable (e.g. command NAIVEBAYES). It is important to always produce the same numbers. In SPSS I can do it with SET but there are pitfalls the user m...
over 4 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Longitudinal Tobit analysis

In many epidemiologic longitudinal and rehabilitation studies, the outcome variable has floor or ceiling effects such as the Barthel Index and Stroke Impact Scale (SIS). Although not correct these variables are treated as normally distributed cont...
over 4 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

SPSS Needs to Support Linux Displaying Remotely ( concurrent license on linux )

SPSS must support concurrent licensing on Linux and the ability to display remotely to work on large HPC and Application clusters that are based on Linux. Most HPC and Application clusters run on Linux. Popular platforms include Grid Engine, SLURM...
over 8 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

cloud storage capability

SPSS does not have the functionality to retrieve and/or save data and output to the cloud. This seems way out of date and should be easily correctable. The measurable benefits would be less complicated logistics in loading and saving files and tim...
over 4 years ago in SPSS Statistics 3 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
over 4 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Add Effect Size Calculations to Linear Mixed Models

Given the importance of practical significance, it is vital that linear mixed models (LMM) incorporate effect size calculations. It is already possible to calculate some measure of effect size with SAS. More and more journals are requiring that ef...
almost 9 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Error due to the 251 character limitation in a line of syntax in Custom Dialogs

In Custom Dialog there is an error due to the 251 character limitation in a line of syntax when using a long variable list.We select the variables in the dialog box, pass it to the syntax with %%vars%% and there the error is produced, the python s...
almost 9 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

SPSS Statistics R Essentials doesn't recognize R failure

When SPSS Statistics server execute R script within Statistics Syntax file(.sps), the execution result will always show successful execution regardless if the R script is returning error. While in the job execution log, the log will show the R err...
about 9 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration