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SPSS Statistics

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Data dependent sorting in CTABLES

In CTABLES, I’d like to do data-dependent-sorting based on something other than the total count. For example, in the CTABLES syntax below, I have MemberType along the left side (10 categories) and AnnualMeeting along the top (two categories: Yes o...
almost 4 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Add Geometric Standard Deviation to go with Geometric Mean

The Geometric Standard Deviation (GSD) is the most interpretable measure of dispersion about the Geometric Mean. Together these statistics can summarise variables (e.g. concentrations) that have a LogNormal distribution. Currently, the variable ha...
almost 4 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...
about 8 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

version for chrome OS

version for chrome OS
about 4 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 8 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

highlighting significance

I would like to address an inconsistency in highlighting significance. It has become common practice that significance at the 0.01 level is marked with two ** asterisks and significance at the 0.05 level with one * asterisk. This is the case e.g. ...
over 4 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

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...
almost 9 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)....
about 9 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 9 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...
over 9 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration