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IBM SPSS Statistics:
Whats New
New tools and features to help you accelerate and
simplify your analysis
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, we have made enhancements to the features and capabilities
of IBM SPSS Statistics Base and its many specialized modules.
IBM SPSS Statistics 21 continues to increase accessibility to advanced
analytics through improved tools, output and ease-of-use features. This
release focuses on increasing the analytic capabilities of the software
through:
Simulation Modeling - Build better models and assess risk when inputs
are uncertain using Monte-Carlo simulation techniques.
Specialized techniques to improve overall performance - Obtain more
accurate results faster and increase productivity and effectiveness.
Improved integration with other technologies and tools - Access
common data types, external programming languages and fle types
more easily.
Our suite of statistical software is now available in three editions:
IBM SPSS Statistics Standard, IBM SPSS Statistics Professional and
IBM SPSS Statistics Premium. By grouping essential capabilities, these
editions provide an effcient way to ensure that your entire team or
department has the features and functionality they need to perform
the analyses that contribute to your organizations success.
Highlights
Build better models and assess risk using
Monte-Carlo simulation techniques.
Import data from IBM

Cognos

Business
Intelligence.
Program in IBM SPSS Statistics using
the Java Plug-in.
Improve ease of use with single sign on
between the SPSS Statistics client and
SPSS Statistics Server.
Compare two data fles to identify any
discrepancies between them.
Make better decisions using Monte Carlo
Simulation
SPSS Statistics 21 includes Monte Carlo simulation
capabilities to help you account for uncertainty in inputs
for predictive models. In this approach, uncertain inputs are
modeled with probability distributions (such as the triangular
distribution), and simulated values for those inputs are
generated by drawing from those distributions. The simulated
values are then used in the predictive model to generate an
outcome. The process is repeated many times (typically
thousands or tens of thousands of times), resulting in a
distribution of outcomes. The distribution of outcomes can
then be used to answer questions of a probabilistic nature.
With SPSS Statistics, you can:
Assess what if scenarios with greater accuracy.
Simulate data according to user-specifed parameters, and
then use that simulated data as input to predict an outcome.
Adjust the parameters used to simulate the data and compare
outcomes. For example, you can simulate various advertising
budget amounts to see how they are likely to affect total sales.
Support the use of predictive models to calculate the
outcome.
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Monte Carlo simulation techniques can be in many industries
and business scenarios:
Manufacturing Determine how the cost of materials affects
proft.
Advertising/marketing Simulate various advertising budget
amounts to see the effect on total sales.
Energy and utilities See how temperature impacts energy
usage.
Finance Understand uncertainty associated with investment
planning.
Compare data les for simple quality
control
IBM SPSS Statistics 21 introduces a data fle comparison tool,
which gives you the ability to compare two datasets or two
data fles to identify any discrepancies between them.
There are two levels of comparison. The frst is a comparison
of the document metadata, and the second is a case-by-case
comparison of selected variable values.
Program in SPSS Statistics with Java
Plug-in
IBM SPSS Statistics 21 enables you to use a Java plug-in to
call SPSS Statistics functionality from a Java application and
have SPSS Statistics output appear in the Java application.
You can also use Java with SPSS Statistics to control, react
to and embed program logic into your jobs and extend the
functionality of SPSS Statistics.
Specify models more easily with IBM SPSS
Amos 21
IBM SPSS Amos 21 for Structural Equation Modeling (SEM)
introduces an alternative non-graphical method for specifying
a model.
Non-programmers can specify a model without drawing
a path diagram.
The model can be entered into a spreadsheet-like table
that can be modifed. Figure 1: Create simulated datasets based on existing data and/or known
parameters when the existing data is inadequate and for what-if.
Exchange data between IBM SPSS
Statistics and IBM Cognos Business
Intelligence
SPSS Statistics 21 now provides the ability to easily import
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence data. You can read custom
data with or without flters, and import pre-defned reports
from IBM Cognos into SPSS Statistics.
Import IBM Cognos data with Cognos calculations and/or
use aggregated data from IBM Cognos.
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Increase security with IBM SPSS Statistics
SPSS Statistics 21 introduces password protection of data
and output fles (encrypting) to prevent others from seeing
confdential information.
Improve administration performance,
scalability and stability of IBM SPSS
Statistics Server
IBM SPSS Statistics Server makes working with large
data faster and more scalable and improves overall stability.
It provides:
Better scalability and performance through load balancing
with IBM SPSS Collaboration and Deployment Services
Ease of use with single sign on between client and server
Improved security, enabling it to be run as non-root on
UNIX/LINUX
Easier administration by allowing client and server to be
on different release levels
Other productivity improvements
Improved and faster fle merging
Match (join) a single case fle with one or more table
lookup fles without sorting all the fles on the key
variable(s) frst
Specify different key variables for each table lookup fle
Improved storage by compressing the data fle
Improved usability with one click descriptive information
from the Data Editor
Improved Pivot tables
Sort table rows by category or by values in a column
Toggle between names and labels post creation
Switch the language/region
Navigation pane for large tables
Tooltip help on cells
Way to search for footnote markers
Allow searching for cells by range of values
Figure 2: SPSS Statistics enables you to import data and reports from
Cognos for additional analysis.
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Preserve column widths when exporting to HTML
Ability to completely delete a row label dimension
Ability to insert a blank row into a pivot table
(via scripting)
Ability to preserve keep together/break here when
exporting to Word
Pivot table output for Generalized Linear Mixed Models
(GLMM)
System requirements
IBM SPSS Statistics 21 for Windows
Operating system
Microsoft Windows XP (Professional, 32-bit) or
Vista (Home, Business, 32- or 64-bit) or Windows 7
(32- or 64-bit)
Hardware
Intel or AMD x86 processor running at 1 GHz or higher
Memory: 1 GB or more recommended
Minimum free drive space: 800 MB*
DVD drive
XGA (1024x768) or higher-resolution monitor
For connecting with an SPSS Statistics Server, a network
adapter running the TCP/IP network protocol
Other
Web browser : Internet Explorer 8 and 9
IBM SPSS Statistics 21 for Mac OS X
Operating system
Apple Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard) or 10.7 (Lion)
(32-bit or 64-bit versions)
Hardware
Intel processor
Memory: 1 GB or more recommended
Minimum free drive space: 800 MB*
DVD drive
XGA (1024x768) or a higher-resolution monitor
Other
Web browser: Safari 5x and 4x
IBM SPSS Statistics 21 for Linux

Operating system
SPSS Statistics was tested on and is supported on only Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 and Debian 6. Distributions
derived from Red Hat and Debian should not present
problems, but they are not tested or supported.
Hardware
Processor: Intel or AMD x86 processor running at
1 GHz or higher
Memory: 1 GB or more recommended
Minimum free drive space: 800 MB*
DVD drive
XGA (1024x768) or a higher-resolution monitor
IBM SPSS Statistics modules
Requirements vary by platform.
IBM SPSS Amos
Operating system
Windows 7 or Windows XP or Windows Vista
Hardware
Memory: 256 MB RAM minimum
125 MB or more available hard-drive space
Other:
Web browser: Internet Explorer 6
Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 SP1 or higher
* Installing Help in all languages requires 1.1 GB free drive space
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IBM SPSS Statistics Server
Operating system
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 or 2003 (32-bit or 64-bit);
Sun Solaris, IBM AIX

(PowerPC), IBM zSeries

running
Linux 64-bit only; HP-UX; Red Hat Enterprise Linux,
Advanced Platform, SUSE Enterprise Linux or Classic
Federation Server
Hardware
Minimum CPU: Two CPUs recommended, running
1 GHz or higher
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Minimum free drive space: 500 MB for installation.
Additional space is required to run the program
(for temporary fles)
Other: A network adapter running the TCP/IP protocol
Get more value with every release
If youre using an earlier version of IBM SPSS Statistics,
youll gain all of these time-saving features and many
more when you upgrade to version 21.
Added in IBM SPSS Statistics 20
Pre-built map templates and support for ESRI fles 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 IBM SPSS Amos
Run IBM SPSS Statistics Server jobs offine by disconnecting
the SPSS Statistics client.
Compress temporary fles created by the sort procedure
within SPSS Statistics Server to save disk space when sorting
large fles.
Added in IBM Statistics 19
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 IBM 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 IBM 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 crosstabulations 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)
Added in IBM SPSS Statistics 18
Prepare data in a single step using the new Automated
Data Preparation feature
New Nonparametric 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
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Ability to view signifcance 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
Added in IBM SPSS Statistics 17
Syntax Editor with features to make it easier to create,
test and deploy syntax jobs
Switch user interface language
Mac OS X and Linux platforms can connect clients to
SPSS Statistics Server
Updated plug-ins for Python, .NET and R
Support for graphic packages written in R
Create user-defned interfaces for existing procedures and
user-defned 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 defned once and used by all IBM
SPSS analytic tools
Administrative enhancements in SPSS Statistics Server,
including optimized multithreading, virtualization support
and a fle in use message to reduce errors in data created
by more than one person writing to an SPSS Statistics fle
at the same time
Read access to SPSS Statistics data fles as an ODBC/JDBC
data source, allowing these fles to be read using SQL
Codebook procedure to automatically describe the dataset
Spell-checking of long text strings
IBM SPSS EZ RFM module
Multiple imputation of missing data in IBM SPSS Missing
Values module
Regularization methods: Ridge regression, the Lasso,
Elastic Net in IBM SPSS Categories
Model selection methods: 632(+), bootstrap, cross validation
(CV), in SPSS Categories
Nearest Neighbor analysis in SPSS Statistics Base
Median transformations function in COMPUTE procedure
Option to use aggressive versus conservative rounding
in COMPUTE procedure
Create new variables that contain the values of existing
variables from preceding or subsequent cases
Graphboard integration, enabling users of SPSS Statistics
products to deploy new or customer graph templates created
in the new IBM SPSS Visualization Designer stand-alone
module
Wrapping and shrinking of wide tables in Word and
PowerPoint
Smartreader feature to allow the viewing and pivoting
of SPSS Statistics output
Added in IBM SPSS Statistics 16
Mac and Linux versions of SPSS Statistics
Several multithreaded procedures for improved
performance and scalability
In the Data Editor: ability to customize variable view,
spell checking for value labels and variable labels, sort
by variable name, type, format, etc.
Unicode support
Import/export Excel 2007 data
Syntax to change string length and basic data type of
existing variables
Creation of value labels and missing values on strings
of any length
Ability to set a permanent default working directory
IBM SPSS Neural Networks module
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Complex Samples Cox Regression added to SPSS
Complex Samples
Latent Class Analysis in SPSS Amos
Partial Least Squares regression
Support for R algorithms
Find and Replace feature in the Output Viewer
Added in IBM SPSS Statistics 15
Control the fow of your syntax jobs or create your own
user-defned algorithms using external programming
languages (through the SPSS Statistics Programmability
Extension)
Python programming language included
Ability to create frst-class, user-defned procedures
Syntax control of output fles
Updated PMML to include transformations
Single administration utility for SPSS Statistics Base
Server, IBM SPSS Modeler and SPSS Collaboration and
Deployment Services
Stripe temporary fles over multiple disks for increased
performance (in SPSS Statistics Base Server)
Data-free client (in SPSS Statistics Base Server)
In-database data preparation (sort and aggregate) to improve
performance (in SPSS Statistics Base Server)
Predictor Selection and Nave Bayes algorithms (in SPSS
Statistics Base Server)
Export to Database Wizard
Optimal Binning (in SPSS Data Preparation
add-on module)
Subset variable views
Generalized linear models (in SPSS Advanced Statistics)
Generalized estimating equations (in IBM SPSS Advanced
Statistics)
Ordinal regression to model ordinal outcomes (in SPSS
Statistics Base)
Complex samples ordinal regression (in SPSS Complex
Samples)
Estimation and imputation of ordered-categorical and
censored data (in SPSS Amos structural equation modeling
software)
Dual-Y axis and overlay charts
Enhanced process control charts
Export output to PDF
Network license reservations and priority settings
Network commuter license
License manager redundancy
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