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SPSS Statistics

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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

Define all missing values at once

I use SPSS to analyse the results of surveys. Since I have different scales and types of variables, I need to define my missing values. I can set all missing values in Ecxel to a certain value (e.g. -99) but after importing the dataset in SPSS i n...
over 3 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Future consideration

Save partition variable in Neural Networks procedures

Problem: In some procedures (like Nearest Neighbor analysis) if cases are randomly assigned to the training and holdout samples on the Partitions tab, they can be saved as a new variable with the values of the partition (training or holdout) to wh...
over 6 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Remotely disconnect

We have a number of users for SPSS. We use the concurrent license that works with the Sentinel License Manager (SLM). For us, it would be interesting to have the possibility to remotely disconnect a user and withdraw the license.
almost 7 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

ROC Analysis should detect and correct dependent variable direction

When running a ROC curve analysis, some of the input curves appear below the null hypothesis. This can be corrected by inverting the values in the independent variable (that is, they were coded opposite the dependent). However, other statistics so...
over 7 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Group Means

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

Add IQR in custom tables statistics

There is no IQR in custom tables statistics list. It's very uncomfortable to take IQR with other methods.
over 3 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Future 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....
almost 4 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration