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SPSS Statistics

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Group Means

Ability to compute group means with calculation over array of cases in variable (similar to python's: df . groupby ([ 'group' ]). mean ()
about 7 years ago in SPSS Statistics 1 Not under consideration

Add column proportions z-test for post-hoc testing in the Complex survey module

I would like to request for a future SPSS release to include column proportions z-test for post-hoc testing in the Complex survey module. Surveys are an often used resource to collect informative data from a large number of people. However, analys...
over 3 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

The Database export assistant should accecpt the length for all oracle data formats which allow a length.

We have a lot of Oracle-Tables with columns in raw format. It should be possible to write back such informations with the database export assistent. But it isn't, because he doesn't accept a lengt for the raw format, which is required from oracle....
over 3 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

suggestion for codebook command

SPSS codebook subcommand could use min and max in it.
over 7 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

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. ...
about 4 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration