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IBM SPSS Statistics
Improve productivity significantly, achieving superior results for business goals

Quickly access and analyze massive data sets

With IBM SPSS Statistics software, you can: IBM SPSS Statistics software makes it easy for you to quickly
• More easily access, manage and analyze virtually access, manage and analyze virtually any kind of data set,
any kind of data set including survey data, corporate databases or data
• Gain reliable results with a broad range of tests downloaded from the web. It can also process Unicode data,
and procedures enabling your organization to view, analyze and share data
• Report results in easy-to-understand formats written in multiple languages.
• Leverage open source scripting languages such as R
and Python to further extend your capabilities Prepare your data in a flash
With IBM SPSS Statistics software, you can prepare data for
Whether you are a beginner or an experienced analyst or analysis more quickly and more easily. You can virtually eliminate
statistician, IBM SPSS Statistics software puts the power of the time-consuming task of labeling your data by creating your
advanced statistical analysis in your hands. labels once and applying them to your entire data set. Make
sure your data is clear and organized properly for analysis by
Solves business and research problems automatically identifying duplicate cases.
IBM SPSS Statistics software offers superior capabilities,
In addition, Visual Binning allows you to more easily create
flexibility and usability that are not available in traditional
bands (such as breaking income into bins of 10,000 or ages
statistical software.
into demographic groups). A histogram then enables you to
Organizations around the world rely on it to: interactively create cut points and automatically create data
value labels for them.
• Identify which customers are likely to respond to specific
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promotional offers Powerful statistics for better analysis
• Forecast future trends to better plan organizational strategies, IBM SPSS Statistics software includes an extensive variety of
logistics and manufacturing processes procedures for descriptive analysis, numerical prediction, group
• Detect fraud and minimize business risk identification and forecasting that help you quickly generate
• Report test and program results to the government and other more accurate results for specific data types. And through the
regulatory agencies IBM SPSS Statistics Programmability Extension, users can
• Identify groups, discover relationships between groups and create procedures in third-party programming languages, such
predict future events as Python, Microsoft .NET and Java, as well as access and use
the many statistical procedures written in R.
Improves the analytical process
IBM SPSS Statistics software addresses the analytical process Easy, flexible reporting options
from planning and data preparation to analysis, reporting and IBM SPSS Statistics software makes it easier to integrate your
deployment. It enables you to get a quick look at your data, output into your reports by enabling you to automatically export
formulate hypotheses for additional testing and then carry out results into Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel (including
a number of statistical and analytic procedures to help clarify Excel 2010) and as an Adobe PDF. In addition, through the
relationships between variables, create clusters, identify Custom Dialog Builder, you can create procedures and make
trends and make predictions. them available to others, making it easier to ensure that all
analyses are performed correctly.

Specifications: System requirements

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IBM SPSS Statistics 25 for Windows – Minimum free drive space: 2 GB of available – Minimum free drive space: 2 GB of available
• Operating system: Microsoft Windows 10 (Home, hard-disk space. If you install more than one help hard-disk space. If you install more than one
Professional, 64-bit), Windows Server 2012 language, each additional language requires help language, each additional language requires
(Standard or R2 Standard, Foundation, Essentials 60–70 MB of free disk space 60–70 MB of free disk space
or R2 Essentials, Datacenter or R2 Datacenter), – 1024x768 or higher-resolution monitor – 1024x768 or higher-resolution monitor
Windows Server 2008 (Web or R2 Web) Enterprise – For connecting with IBM SPSS Statistics Server
or R2 Enterprise, Datacenter or R2 Datacenter) , technology, a network adapter running the TCP/IP IBM SPSS Statistics 25 for Linux
Windows 8 (Enterprise, Professional, Standard 32-bit network protocol • Operating system: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Red Hat
or 64-bit), Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit), Windows 8.1 Enterprise Linux (Client 6, Client 7), Debian (6.0, 7.0)
(Enterprise, Professional, Standard 32-bit or 64-bit) IBM SPSS Statistics 25 for Mac • Installing help in all languages requires 1.1 GB of free
• Hardware • Operating system disk space
– Intel or AMD x86 processor running at 2 GHz – Apple Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan)
or higher • Hardware For comprehensive, detailed compatibility reports,
– Memory: 4 GB of RAM or more is required, – Intel processor (32-bit and 64-bit) please visit the IBM software compatibility reports tool.
8 GB of RAM or more is recommended for – Memory: 14 GB of RAM or more is required,
64-bit client platforms 8 GB of RAM or more is recommended for
64-bit client platforms

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Florida Department of Juvenile Justice brings crime to the lowest level in years by predicting more effective
ways to treat young offenders

The Florida Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) is shaping To make smart decisions about the correct treatment and
better outcomes for young people. Powerful analytics solutions rehabilitation path for each young person, it is important for DJJ
from IBM—part of the IBM Watson™ Foundations family—are to build an accurate profile of a child’s individual level of risk by
helping the agency dig deeper into big data on young offenders, reviewing key predictors, such as past offense history, homelife
predict the likely outcomes of different rehabilitation methods, environment, gang affiliation and peer associations. Accurate
and work more effectively with social services to get children risk assessment represents just one step on the pathway to
on the right track and out of the justice system. This helps DJJ reducing juvenile delinquency. An even more important task is to
make better decisions about how to deliver social services, ensure that the right intervention and rehabilitation methods are
address problems sooner and help children turn their lives applied at the right time to improve outcomes for young people
around. The results speak for themselves: arrests have fallen by and lower their likelihood of committing an offense.
23 percent since 2010–2011, putting the juvenile arrest rate at its
lowest level since 1994. The DJJ and the state of Florida believe that if youth are
rehabilitated with effective prevention, intervention and
“With tools like IBM SPSS Modeler and IBM SPSS Statistics treatment services early in life, they will not enter the adult
Base, we can extract relevant data and run complex analyses, corrections system. Former Secretary Wansley Walters of DJJ
which play a crucial role in helping us to design and assess the concludes: “With IBM software and services, we believe we are
success of different programs and to demonstrate these results building a smarter technology infrastructure that sharpens our
to stakeholders,” says Mark Greenwald, the director of research experience as subject matter experts. The result is that young
and planning at DJJ. people become—and stay—law-abiding citizens.”

Draw attention to specific results by applying attributes such as color

to individual table cells or rows.

A redesigned landing page makes it easier to find

the SPSS Statistics features you need quickly

Use conditional formatting to highlight cell View interactive SPSS Statistics reports via your web browser from
background and text within tables based on smartphones and tablets, including Apple iPhone, iPad and iPod;
the cell value. Microsoft Windows; and Google Android devices.

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IBM SPSS Statistics Base
An ideal choice for data analysis

With IBM SPSS Statistics Base software, you can:

• Quickly access and manage data
• Get a “first look” through descriptive statistics
• Perform fundamental tests to classify data, uncover Play a quick Download the data sheet Buy now.
demo. and full specifications.
relationships and make predictions

Make better decisions using Monte Carlo simulation

You can take the analytical process from start to finish with SPSS Statistics software combines the power of predictive
IBM SPSS Statistics Base software. In addition to the data analytics with the what-if capabilities of Monte Carlo simulation
preparation, data management, output management and to help you assess risk and deal with uncertainty in
charting features now available in all IBM SPSS Statistics predictive models.
modules, IBM SPSS Statistics Base software offers one of the
• Assess what-if scenarios
most frequently used procedures for statistical analysis—the
• Simulate data according to user-specified parameters and
fundamental toolset that virtually every analyst should have.
then use that simulated data as input to predict an outcome
• Adjust the parameters used to simulate the data and
compare outcomes

Start with your existing models and data

With SPSS Statistics software, you don’t need to specify your
entire model. You can use your existing predictive models and
data as the starting points for your simulation. The predictive
models can be built in SPSS Statistics or SPSS Modeler
software and can be used to specify the strength of the inputs.
SPSS Statistics software can use existing similar data you have
to fit the distribution of the inputs and the correction of the
inputs automatically.

A company generates heat maps to determine whether customer

You can also modify the parameters used to simulate the data
satisfaction levels extracted from social media data have an effect on its and compare outcomes. For example, you may want to simulate
monthly sales target of USD7 million. When the satisfaction level is “neutral,” various advertising budget amounts to find out how that affects
the monthly sales numbers are spread roughly evenly around the sales total sales. Depending on the outcome of the simulation, you
target. However, when the social media satisfaction level is “somewhat might decide to spend more on advertising to meet your total
positive,” the sales distribution shifts so that the bulk of the distribution
sales goal.
(for that satisfaction level) exceeds the target. This suggests that customer
satisfaction levels as measured by social media data are an integral part of
achieving a sales target.

These procedures will enable you to get a quick look at your

data, formulate hypotheses for additional testing and then carry
out a number of procedures to help clarify relationships between
variables, create clusters, identify trends and make predictions.

SPSS Statistics Base software even offers Monte Carlo

simulation techniques to build better models and assess risk
when inputs are uncertain.

Get a quick data “snapshot”

You can quickly understand the basic structure of your data
through the foundational statistics in IBM SPSS Statistics Base.
These include cross-tabulations, frequencies, descriptives,
descriptive ratio statistics, ANOVA and ANCOVA, correlation, When the existing data is inadequate, create simulated data sets based on
and the procedures for comparing means and exploring data. existing data, known parameters or both.
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 With SPSS Statistics 22 software, you can take your SPSS
Statistics charts and tables wherever you go and make
decisions virtually anytime, anywhere. The latest release
enables you to view output on the following platforms and
devices without the need for a dedicated smart reader or
other application:

• Windows, Mac and Linux desktop environments

• Apple iPod, iPhone and iPad
• Google Android phones and tablets (versions 2.1 and above)
• Windows 8 devices

Even if you use one or more of the other modules in the IBM
SPSS Statistics family for specific kinds of analysis, IBM SPSS
Statistics Base software will continue to form the basis of
The data editor makes it easier to manage data from IBM many deployments because it contains statistical tests and
SPSS Statistics files as well as text files and data from other procedures that are fundamental to many analyses.
applications and databases.

Map relationships in your data

IBM SPSS Statistics Base software also includes a number of
procedures to help you identify groups and predict outcomes. IBM SPSS Statistics Extensions
These procedures include: for R, Python and SPSS Syntax
• Factor analysis
provide powerful features for users
• K-means cluster analysis by offering a constant stream of
• Hierarchical cluster analysis new content without requiring
• Two-step cluster analysis a separate purchase or a new
• Discriminant analysis
• Linear regression
product installation. Extensions are
• Ordinal regression (also called PLUM) easy and fun to try. Just navigate
• Nearest neighbor analysis to the new Extensions menu to
download and build one.

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 Specifications: System requirements

Descriptive statistics • Apply splitters in the data editor for easier viewing of • Density charts
• Cross-tabulations wide or long data files – Population pyramids: Mirrored axis to compare
• Frequencies, descriptives, explore, descriptive • Create your own dictionary information for variables distributions, with or without normal curve
ratio statistics by using custom attributes – Dot charts: Stacked dots show distribution;
• Customize the viewing of extremely wide files with symmetric, stacked and linear
Bivariate statistics variable sets – Histograms: With or without normal curve; custom
• Means, t tests, ANOVA, correlation (bivariate, partial, • Use syntax to change string length and basic binning options
distances) and nonparametric tests data type • Quality control charts
• Set a permanent default working directory – Pareto, X-bar, range, Sigma, individual chart or
Prediction for numerical outcomes and moving range chart
identifying groups Transformations – Rule-checking performed on primary and
• Factor analysis • More easily find and replace text strings in your data secondary charts
• K-means cluster analysis using the find and replace function – Automatic flagging of points that violate Shewhart
• Hierarchical cluster analysis • Recode string or numeric value rules, the ability to turn off rules and the ability to
• Two-step cluster analysis • Recode values into consecutive integers suppress charts
• Discriminant • Create conditional transformations using DO IF, ELSE • Diagnostic and exploratory charts
• Linear regression IF, ELSE and END IF statements – Case plots and time-series plots
• Ordinal regression—PLUM • Use programming structures, such as do repeat-end – Probability plots
• Multithreaded algorithms: SORT, correlation, partial repeat, loop-end loop and vectors – Autocorrelation and partial autocorrelation
correlation, linear regression, factor analysis • Compute variables using arithmetic, cross-case, date function plots
• Nearest neighbor analysis, which can be used for and time, logical, missing-value, random-number, – Cross-correlation function plots
prediction or for classification statistical, or string functions – Receiver-operating characteristics
• Nonparametric tests provide multiple comparisons • Create variables that contain the values of existing • Multiple use charts
and perform efficiently on large data sets variables from preceding or subsequent cases – 2-D line charts (with two-scale axes)
• Monte Carlo simulation • Count occurrences of values across variables – Charts for multiple response sets
• Data editor • Make transformations permanent or temporary • Custom charts
– Configure attributes so that some can be hidden • Execute transformations immediately, batched or – Graphics Production Language (GPL), a custom
– Spell check value labels and variable labels on demand chart creation language, enables advanced
– Sort by variable name, type, format and more users to attain a broader range of chart and
– Use find and replace functionality Reporting option possibilities than the interface supports to
• Easily eliminate duplicate records with the Identify • Reports create mixed charts and more
Duplicate Cases tool – Online analytical processing (OLAP) cubes • Layout options
• Make sense and keep track of your data files by – Case summaries – Paneled charts: Create a table of subcharts,
adding notes to them with the Data File Comments – Report summaries one panel per level or condition; multiple row
command and columns
• Create read-only data sets Graphs – 3-D effects: Rotate, modify depth and
• More accurately describe your data using longer • Categorical charts display backplanes
variable names (up to 64 bytes) – 3-D bar: Simple, cluster and stacked • Chart templates
• Create value labels up to 120 characters – Bar: Simple, cluster, stacked, dropped shadow – Save selected characteristics of a chart and apply
• Clone or duplicate data sets and 3-D them to others automatically
• Apply an extended Variable Properties command to – Line: Simple, multiple and drop-line – Apply the following attributes at creation or edit
customize properties for individual users – Area: Simple and stacked time: Layout, titles, footnotes and annotations;
• Longer text strings (up to 32,000 bytes) – Pie: Simple, exploding and 3-D effect chart element styles; data element styles; axis
• Define Variables Properties tool – High-low: High-low-close, difference area and scale range; axis scale settings; fit and reference
• Right-click on the variable to choose its descriptive range bar lines; and scatterplot point binning
statistics – Box plot: Simple and clustered – Tree-view layout and finer control of
• Copy Data Properties tool – Error bar: Simple and clustered template bundles
• Data Restructure wizard – Error bars: Add to bar, line and area charts;
• Aggregate data to external or to the active data file confidence level; S.D.; or S.E. System requirements
• Automatically convert string variables to numeric – Dual-Y axes and overlay subgroups, display • Please see p. 8 for complete system requirements
with autorecode spikes to line
– Spell-checking of long text strings • Scatterplots
• Date and Time wizard: – Simple, grouped, scatterplot matrix and 3-D
– Easily work with data containing time and dates in – Fit lines: Linear, quadratic or cubic
IBM SPSS Statistics software regression; Lowess smoother; confidence interval
– Create a time or date variable from a string control for total or bivariate statistics
containing a date variable – Bin points by color or marker size to
– Create a time or date variable from variables that prevent overlap
include individual date units, such as month
or year
– Calculate times and dates
– Separate a date unit from a time or date variable

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