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SPSS Statistics

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SPSS statistics - Problem with mixed Output to word-document

Until version SPSS 15 the output from SPSS to WORD was with format for pictures with "Enhanced Metafile (*.EMF)". The result in WORD was excellent as good as in SPSS. Since version SPSS 16 and later the format ist "PNG". With this format the quali...
almost 9 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Temporal Causal Modeling Scenario Builder Suggestion

After creating a Temporal Causal Model and saving it, you can use it to run scenarios based on altering the predictors values (e.g. a 5% increase in variable X) and what impact this will have on your forecast. The problem is that the scenarios onl...
about 9 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Valid n to Factor Analysis

This is a basic thing which is missing in EFA and PCA outputs: nowehere in the output is written on how many valid cases the output is based on. If selecting variables with several missing values here and there (and not selecting the "replace miss...
about 9 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

add feature to save "variables in set" in Define Variable Sets

Customer requested to add feature to save "variables in set" in Define Variable Sets
over 9 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

support of SCCM2012

SPSS Statistics is used globally in our company. The installation of the SW is done via SCCM2012. We use SCCM for many years but this year have experienced issues with installation on Vista clients so that the installations of SW had to be done ma...
over 9 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

JRE 6 and 7 dependency for Silent Installer of Statistics 23

A silent installation of SPSS Version 23 needs JRE 6 or 7 installed as a requirement. Is there likely to be a version that will work with JRE 8 which is the version shipped with newer Mac OS X or will it be necessary to install JRE 6 or JRE 7 befo...
over 9 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Programmability errors should propagate as SPSS errors, by default

Currently Python, R and Java errors are not propagated as SPSS errors. Also, these errors do not end up in the .jnl file. Running the following oneliner will propagate a Python error as an SPSS error import sys, spss; sys.excepthook = lambda type_...
over 9 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Add feature to apply separate statistics only for selected variables

Due to Sarah's request I wrote this in Japanese. Abstract:Add feature to apply separate statistics in summary statistics wizard only for selected variables for custom table ex: apply statistics : valid N only to total col. with the situation like ...
over 9 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Custom Table Default Options

Currently when running custom tables & Frequency tables, the default statistics options have to be changed manually on each table to select the statistics you want to run. An option to change these default statistics and save for all future us...
over 9 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

AGGREGATE DISTINCT FUNCTION

AGGREGATE command should have a DISTINCT function which can calculate the DISTINCT values of a target variable within each BREAK.
over 9 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration