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SPSS Statistics

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Longitudinal Tobit analysis

In many epidemiologic longitudinal and rehabilitation studies, the outcome variable has floor or ceiling effects such as the Barthel Index and Stroke Impact Scale (SIS). Although not correct these variables are treated as normally distributed cont...
almost 5 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...
over 7 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

muti language encoding

We have a survey conducted in Dimensions Data Collections that produces a DDF Data file. In this survey we have an open end (text) variable that contains answers from the users on different exotic languages. The survey is conducted on Burmese and ...
over 2 years ago in SPSS Statistics 2 Future consideration

Statistics naming rules for variable name on online help

No description provided
over 5 years ago in SPSS Statistics 1 Functionality already exists

Sharepoint support

When accessing SharePoint from within SPSS, for example to open or save files, SPSS is extremely slow (much slower then other programs).
almost 8 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...
about 8 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.
about 8 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Select Cases - allow ability to change default option of hiding unselected cases in Data View

SPSS 28 automatically hides cases that don't meet the selection criteria in Data View. There is an option to show unselected cases (like in older versions) but you have to set it each time a new instance of SPSS is opened.
almost 3 years ago in SPSS Statistics 1 Functionality already exists

Setting to not offer public tables when importing data from a database

This issue is also described here: https://developer.ibm.com/answers/questions/464796/list-of-tables-when-importing-from-oracle-database.html This might only concern Oracle databases, but possibly others as well. In SPSS one can import data from...
about 6 years ago in SPSS Statistics 1 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...
over 9 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration