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SPSS Statistics

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Need a way to identify row and column indexes of cell in OMS output

If an table in SPSS output empty cells, there is no way to identify, what is column index in OMS output.For example create a table using ONEWAY command. The Post Hoc table contains a lot of empty cells and there is no way to know row and column in...
about 8 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Close without exit

Most software programs allow the user close their work without exiting the program. In SPSS when only one sheet is open there is not option to close, only exit. This affects all users of SPSS. The current setup is cumbersome, being forced to open ...
over 3 years ago in SPSS Statistics 1 Not under consideration

SPSS need to work with a DQM environment

There is no work around for this issue. We are getting more and more customers asking to use SPSS and we can't offer it to them as a workable solution. This definitely needs to be addressed soon. Check with Michael on history of SPSS and Cognos da...
almost 6 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

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 ...
about 6 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...
almost 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

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

Request for improving performance when uploading shp file to Statistics

cannot complete uploading shp file (81016 KB) to Statistics with Win 7 4G RAM Customer wants to improve this performance. Due to Sahra's request this is written in Japanese 空間モデリングで分析をおこなう際にMAPのUploadをおこã...
almost 9 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Sharepoint/Teams/OneDrive Connector for SPSS Statistics Shared Files

Shared SPSS files append local user file path when accessing and saving via Windows File Explorer. This causes instability when another user then tries to go access and modify the file and so on. There needs to be a Cloud connector for customer wh...
7 months ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

New system variables $NCASES, $NNUMERIC, and $NSTRING

The following are FAQs in SPSS discussion forums: 1) How can I get the total number of cases in my file? 2) How can I get the total number of variables? For 2, sometimes people may want the number of string variables only or the number of numeric ...
9 months ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration