What's New in SPSS 21.0-15.0

What's new in SPSS 21.0-15.0

Why Upgrade?

With each release, we’ve added a number of helpful features. Take a look at what you’re missing. Then, contact us to upgrade your existing IBM SPSS Statistics software.

Added in Version 21

·  Monte Carlo simulation techniques for building better models and assessing risk when inputs are uncertain in SPSS Statistics Base

·  Ability to import IBM Cognos Business Intelligence data into SPSS Statistics

·  Password protection for data and output files in SPSS Statistics

·  Two datasets or files can be compared in SPSS Statistics

·  Improvements to pivot tables in SPSS Statistics

·  Improved storage space by compressing the data file in SPSS Statistics

·  Integration of the Java programming language through the SPSS Statistics Programmability Extension

·  Load balancing through SPSS Collaboration and Deployment Services improves scalability and performance in SPSS Statistics Server

·  Single sign-on between the SPSS Statistics client and SPSS Statistics Server

·  Improved security enables SPSS Server to run as non-root on Unix/Linux

·  Client and server software can be on different release levels

·  Easier model specification in SPSS Amos

·  Improved and faster file merging in SPSS Statistics

·  Export output to Excel 2007/2010 (.xlsx)

·  Pivot table output for Generalized Linear Mixed Models in SPSS Advanced Statistics

·  Improved usability with one-click descriptive information from the data editor

Added in Version 20

·  Map visualization capabilities, including pre-built map templates and support for ESRI files in SPSS Statistics Base

·  Faster tables: Generate fully interactive and editable output tables up to five times faster

·  Generalized linear mixed models (GLMM) can be run with a wide variety of hierarchical data (including ordinal values) in SPSS Advanced Statistics

·  Run server jobs while disconnected from the network in SPSS Statistics Server

·  Temporary file compression during sort procedure with SPSS Statistics Server

·  Non-graphical method to specify models in SPSS Amos

Added in Version 19

·  Generalized linear mixed models (GLMM)

·  Improvements to crosstabs

·  Automatic linear models, with improved model accuracy and stability with boosting and bagging

·  Updates to SPSS Direct Marketing, including smart output and improvements to control package testing

·  UIs for scoring, allowing customers to more easily score new data with pre-built models

·  Improvements to portal: Ability to run SPSS Statistics in a portal, combined with SPSS Collaboration and Deployment Services

·  Ability to connect to Salesforce.com

·  Extended SPSS Exact Tests platform support to Mac and Linux

·  Import/Export Microsoft Excel 2010 data

Added in Version 18

·  All modules can run independently - SPSS Statistics Base is no longer required

·  Prepare data in a single step using automated data preparation feature

·  New nonparametric tests in SPSS Statistics Base

·  Post computed categories in SPSS Custom Tables

·  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

·  New product: SPSS Statistics Developer and new modules: SPSS Direct Marketing and SPSS Bootstrapping

Added in Version 17*

·  Switch user interface language

·  Mac OS X and Linux platforms can connect clients to SPSS Statistics Server

·  Support for graphic packages written in R

·  Create user defined interfaces for existing procedures and user-defined procedures with custom dialog builder

·  Call front-end Python scripts or scripting APIs explicitly from within back-end Python programs

·  Support for Predictive Enterprise View, a common data interface that can be defined once and used by all IBM SPSS analytic tools

·  Read access to SPSS Statistics data files as an ODBC/JDBC data source, allowing these files to be read using SQL

·  Codebook procedure to automatically describe the dataset

·  Improved syntax editor with features to make it easier to create, test, and deploy syntax jobs

·  Multiple imputation of missing data

·  Nearest neighbor analysis

·  Graphboard integration, enabling users of SPSS Statistics products to deploy new or customer graph templates created in new SPSS Visualization Designer

·  Wrapping and shrinking of wide tables in Microsoft Word and PowerPoint

Added in Version 16*

·  Resizable dialogs and drag-and-drop in dialogs

·  Several multithreaded procedures for improved performance and scalability

·  Unicode support

·  Import/export Excel 2007 data

·  Complex Samples Cox Regression

·  Latent class analysis in SPSS Amos

·  Partial least squares regression

·  Support for R algorithms

·  Addition of Python as a “front-end” cross-platform scripting language

·  New module: SPSS Neural Networks

Added in Version 15*

·  SPSS Adapter for SPSS Predictive Enterprise Services

·  Updated PMML to include transformations

·  Export to database wizard

·  Custom attributes for user-defined meta data

·  Optimal binning

·  Subset variable views

·  Generalized linear models

·  Generalized estimating equations

·  Ordinal regression to model ordinal outcomes in SPSS Statistics Base

·  Complex samples ordinal regression

·  Export output to PDF

*Upgrading from version 17 or earlier will require purchasing a new version of SPSS Statistics.

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