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SPSS Statistics

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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 ...
almost 7 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...
about 5 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Add function to sort Expiration Date on License Key Center

Our Business Partner sells customers instead of us.Because of that they ordered many contracts every day. In the case of Term License, for example, they would like to generate authcodes which associated with entitlement's expiration date (ex. 31st...
over 7 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Future support on non persistent VDI platform

In the past year, I get the sense that there is a growing demand for VDI platform for SPSS. the VMWare Horizon seems to be more common. I have encountered an issue with Stats v. 28.0.1.1 when installing it on a non-persistent VDI platform: It seem...
over 2 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Future consideration

muti language encoding

We have a survey conducted in Dimensions Data Collections that produces a DDF Data file. In this survey we have an open end (text) variable that contains answers from the users on different exotic languages. The survey is conducted on Burmese and ...
over 2 years ago in SPSS Statistics 2 Future 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).
about 8 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Statistics naming rules for variable name on online help

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over 5 years ago in SPSS Statistics 1 Functionality already exists

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...
about 8 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 8 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Select Cases - allow ability to change default option of hiding unselected cases in Data View

SPSS 28 automatically hides cases that don't meet the selection criteria in Data View. There is an option to show unselected cases (like in older versions) but you have to set it each time a new instance of SPSS is opened.
almost 3 years ago in SPSS Statistics 1 Functionality already exists