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SPSS Statistics

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Bland-Altman Plot

User in the field of biostatistics are using Bland-Altman technique and would like to have a direct access to the procedure rather than having to use 3 different unrelated procedures to have this product.
over 8 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Bug report: entering codes for missing values

I am running SPSS v29 under a concurrent license. Entering negative numbers for user defined missing values does not work now, neither in the Variable View or in Data&Define Varpiable Properties.
about 1 year ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Azure Managed Instance SQL Compatibility with SPSS

We would like to request Azure Managed Instance SQL compatibility to the SPSS product line. We need to enable it for SPSS users to access and analyse data in the centrally available Azure Managed Instance (SQL Server) Version 12. The university-wi...
over 4 years ago in SPSS Statistics 1 Not under consideration

Add Coding for Inferential Testing for SPSS Quantile Regression Coefficients

Anyone who wants to use Quantile Regression (QR) must conduct inferential tests for differences among the beta coefficients across quantiles. Without these tests, QR cannot be interpreted for research purposes (unless you have a population of data...
about 1 year ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

On restrictions on String variables used for 'Grouping Valiable' of 'Independent-Samples T test'

About 'Grouping Valiable' of 'Independent-Samples T test'. Improvement request I would like to use Long String (eg 24 bytes) as 'Grouping Valiable'. In the case of String variable, only variables that variable width is 8 or less can be input to [G...
almost 6 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Support for PostgresSQL

Many organisations use PostgresSQL databases, it would be good if SPSS Statistics had official support for this datasource.
about 1 year ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Allow editing X axis of violin chart

If I am making a violin chart for a variable where the values follow a certain order, for example, days of the week, I don't have a way to put the chronological order on the X axis.The same thing happens if the values of my variables are ranges, f...
about 1 year ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Enrichment of tables production

CTABLES is getting old and has been overtaken by tools like Q Research or GESStabs. I think significant improvements and more features are overdue. We might even need a complete new module. Please see what other software producers developed and tr...
almost 5 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

IBM SPSS Statistics concurrent license manager via web portal

Please add a web portal for managing licenses and users instead of the traditional Sentinel RMS LM. The courrent UI style and the tools it provides are outdated and very old fashion. A revision of the current SPSS license tool to be managed via cl...
over 1 year 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 4 years ago in SPSS Statistics 1 Not under consideration