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SPSS Statistics

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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

SPSS Categories PROXSCAL function

In the multidimensional scaling PROXSCAL function in SPSS Categories, the ratio proximity transformation is available when proximities are dissimilarities. However, when proximities are similarities, the possibility for a ratio proximity transform...
over 7 years ago in SPSS Statistics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to round numbers to 10s, 100s, 1000s in displa

Ability to round numbers to 10s, 100s, 1000s in display, whilst retaining the ability to calculate correct totals in tables.
over 7 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Block bootstrap

For many regression procedures with dependent data, you want to resample whole blocks of data together. This currently cannot be accomplished via stratified sampling, which samples one case per strata.
over 7 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...
over 7 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Statistics Server/Client Add Compatibility for Oracle Access Manager WebGate WSSO

Please add Single Sign On (SSO) compatibility to use Oracle Access Manager 10.1.4.3.0 WebGate, and later for Web Single Sign On (WSSO).
almost 8 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration