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IBM SPSS Statistics: What’s New New and enhanced features to accelerate, optimize and simplify data analysis
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Explore, install and update extensions with an online application store-like experience
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Redesigned experience while you import and export most popular file types
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Take advantage of new enhancements in the SPSS Custom Tables module
Analytics plays an increasingly important role in helping your organization achieve its objectives. The IBM® SPSS® Statistics family delivers the core capabilities needed for end-to-end analytics. To ensure that the most advanced techniques are available to a broader group of analysts and business users, enhancements have been made to the features and capabilities of IBM SPSS Statistics Base and its many specialized modules. IBM SPSS Statistics 24 continues to offer advanced analytics through improved access to programming extensions, smarter data management and enhanced productivity. This release focuses on increasing the analytic capabilities of the software through the following features: •
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SPSS Statistics Extensions. An online application store-like experience to explore, install and update extensions. Smarter data management. Redesigned experience for importing and exporting of most popular file types. Enhanced productivity. Enhanced features within SPSS custom tables, refreshed variable view and several other enhancements.
Our suite of SPSS Statistics software comes in three editions: standard, professional and premium. These editions group essential features and functionality, and are a convenient way to ensure you have the capabilities you need to generate the insights your organization requires for effective decision making.
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SPSS Statistics Extensions In SPSS Statistics 24, you experience a new way to access and work with open source and third party programming extensions with the Statistics Extension Hub and the Statistics Custom Dialog Builder for Extensions.
SPSS Statistics Extensions Hub The Extensions Hub is a new interface to manage extensions that provides an application store where you can: •
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Easily browse, download and update free product extensions based on SPSS, Python or R syntax Easily find and download new extensions Get updates to existing extensions Remove installed extensions View properties of your installed extensions
SPSS Statistics Custom Dialog Builder for Extensions It is easier than ever to create and share extensions based on R/Python and SPSS Syntax for your customized needs:
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Create extensions faster than ever with updated interface Easily share extensions (double click to install) Access new control options, new properties of existing controls Choose new options for the menu location of a dialog
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Create extensions faster than ever with updated interface
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Figure 1: Image extensions hub
Figure 2: Custom Dialog Builder
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Smarter data management
Enhancements in SPSS Custom Tables
In SPSS Statistics 24, you will get a redesigned experience while importing and exporting the most popular file types with more accurate calculation of a variable type. Here are some of the features:
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With SPSS Statistics 24, SPSS Custom Tables module added a few groundbreaking features:
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Quickly import and export files with redesigned Excel and CSV functionality. Determine the data format for a column based on a specified percentage of values with the same format. Ignore hidden Excel rows and columns. Remove leading and trailing spaces from string values. Specify a sheet name when writing Excel data files. Append a named sheet to an existing Excel workbook. Write variable labels instead of variable names to an Excel file. Gain more flexibility in reading text data files, including automatic detection of data formats and better handling of date and time values. Export value labels to a database.
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Effective base for weighted sample results Scores of new confidence interval and standard error statistics Ability to include significant test results in the main table Display significance values for column means and column proportions tests An additional false discovery correction method for multiple comparisons
Figure 4: Custom tables features
Figure 3: Importing Excel file
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Reasons to upgrade your SPSS Statistics software
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If you’re using an earlier version of IBM SPSS Statistics, you’ll gain all of these time saving features, and many more, when you upgrade to the newest version.
SPSS community for extensions and forums Welcome screen with tie-ins to community and license manager Multi-threading control on client screens New TableLooks “Revert to Saved” functionality Python 3 support Added NAÏVE BAYES and SELECT PREDICTORS to base (formerly server only features) New date and time formats Ability to show leading zeros Variable icons in data editor Refreshed variable view
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Uncover hidden causal relationships among a large number of time series using temporal causal modeling (TCM)
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Find trends over time and space using spatio-temporal prediction (STP) Create association rules that incorporate geospatial attributes using the generalized spatial association rule (GSAR)
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Improved categorical principal component analysis with non-parametric bootstrapping, clustering of case and new rotation options for better convergence Programmability enhancements for R with the ability to test programs using features of the R integrated development environment for easy debugging Next generation of web output with more interactivity and functionality with web server support Improved accessibility with the ability to import, read and write new version of Stata files Faster performance with bulk export/insert to database Support to authenticate with a badge reader
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Interactive output on smart devices Presentation-ready output More powerful Monte Carlo Simulation with support for simulating strings, automatic linear modeling and heat maps Integration with IBM® Cognos® TM1 Improved performance and scalability using SPSS Statistics server with SQL pushback Python plug-in as part of main installation Search for, download and install available programming extensions from within extensions Use a simplified method to specify user-defined estimands in SPSS Amos Benefit from improved logging support for Enterprise Standard in the Platform Standards. Enable other applications to read/write encrypted statistics data files with I/O .dll Generate pivot table output for non-parametric procedures
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Easier model specification in IBM SPSS Statistics Amos for structural equation modeling (SEM) Programming in SPSS Statistics with a Java plug-in Ability to import IBM Cognos Business Intelligence data into SPSS Statistics for additional analysis Exporting of output to Microsoft Excel 2007/2010 Better scalability and performance with load balancing with IBM SPSS Collaboration and Deployment Services Single sign-on between SPSS Statistics client and server For security restricted environments, the option to run SPSS Statistics server as a non-root user on UNIX/LINUX Compression of data files for increased storage space Version compatibility to support new clients with old servers and vice versa, such as client V21 and server V20 OR client V20 and server V21
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Monte Carlo simulation for building better models to uncertain inputs Ability to compare two data files or data sets to ensure the data values and records are compatible Password protection of data and output files (encryption) to prevent others from seeing confidential information Improved and faster file merging Enhanced pivot tables with new features such as easier navigation and sorting operations
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Pre-built map templates and support for ESRI files in SPSS Statistics Base Faster pivot table output GLMM procedure in IBM SPSS Advanced Statistics can be run with ordinal values Non-graphical, programmatic method for specifying models in SPSS Amos Run SPSS Statistics Server jobs offline by disconnecting the SPSS Statistics client. Compress temporary files created by the sort procedure within SPSS Statistics Server to save disk space when sorting large files.
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Automatic Linear Models (ALM) gives non-specialist users the tools to build powerful linear models automatically and predict numerical outcomes Generalized Linear Mixed Models (GLMM), in SPSS Advanced Statistics, lets you create more accurate models for predicting non-linear outcomes based on hierarchical/ nested data or data that includes repeated measures Several new capabilities in IBM SPSS Direct Marketing Faster performing tables in SPSS Statistics Base More than a dozen performance and ease-of-use enhancements to the Syntax Editor, available in all products in the SPSS Statistics family The Statistics portal provides internal or external users with interactive online access to analysis (requires SPSS Statistics Server and SPSS Collaboration and Deployment Services) Compiled transformations is a feature in SPSS Statistics Server that improves the performance of SPSS Statistics programs that execute a large number of data transformations Analysts using SPSS Statistics Base can score customer data, access pre-built models and interface directly with data in Salesforce.com Pivot columns and cross tabulations in SPSS Statistics Base and IBM SPSS Custom Tables Work with smaller and sparse datasets on Linux and Mac operating systems in IBM SPSS Exact Tests Run SPSS Statistics Base Server on IBM® System z® (requires SuSE Linux)
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Prepare data in a single step using the new Automated Data Preparation feature New Non-parametric tests in SPSS Statistics Base Post computed categories in SPSS Custom Tables SPSS Direct Marketing module SPSS Bootstrapping module Rule checking on Secondary SPC Charts IBM SPSS Statistics Developer Ability to view significance tests in the main results table in SPSS Custom Tables Interactive Model Viewer on Two-Step Cluster Analysis and Automated Data Preparation procedures Improved display of large pivot tables Improved performance on procedures within SPSS Statistics Base Server for Frequencies, Descriptives, Crosstabs Support for 64-bit hardware on desktop for Windows and Mac Support for Snow Leopard on Mac OS X 10.6
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