SPSS versions
The information here is a copy of the version
comparison list from the SPSS web site, copied here for convenience.
The list for each version are the features added since the last
version. The new features added to SPSS
version 7 since SPSS 6.1. The features listed are based
on SPSS for Windows, some of which may not be available for
SPSS for macintosh. The latest macintosh version is SPSS 17
for OS X with intel and 16 for OS X for power PC processors.
An early history of the statistical procedures can be found
on the UCLA
site.
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- 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 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 defined once and used by all SPSS Inc.
analytic tools
- Administrative enhancements in SPSS Statistics Server,
including optimized multithreading, virtualization support,
and a “file
in use” message to reduce errors in data created by
more than one person writing to an SPSS Statistics file at
the same time
- 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
- Spell-checking of long text strings
- SPSS EZ RFM add-on module
- Multiple imputation of missing data
in SPSS Missing Values add-on module
- Regularization methods: Ridge regression, the Lasso, Elastic
Net all in the SPSS Categories add-on module
- Model selection methods: 632(+), bootstrap, cross validation(CV)
all in the SPSS Categories add-on module
- 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 SPSS Viz 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
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- Mac and Linux versions of SPSS
- Several multithreaded procedures for improved performance
and scalability
- In the Data Editor: ability to customize variable view
- In the Data Editor: spell checking for value labels
and variable labels
- In the Data Editor: ability to 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
- SPSS Neural Networks add-on module
- Complex Samples Cox Regression added to SPSS Complex Samples
- Latent Class Analysis in Amos
- Partial Least Squares regression
- Support for R algorithms
- Find and Replace feature in the Output Viewer
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- SPSS Adapter for SPSS Predictive Enterprise Services
- Updated
PMML to include transformations
- Single administration utility for SPSS Server, Clementine
Server, and SPSS Predictive Enterprise Services platform
- Stripe
temporary files over multiple disks for increased performance
(in SPSS Server)
- Export to Database Wizard
- Custom Attributes for user-defined
meta data in the SPSS Data Editor
- Export to Dimensions Data
Model
- Optimal Binning (in SPSS Data Preparation™;
this add-on module was previously called SPSS Data Validation)
- Subset
variable views
- Python® programming language included
on the SPSS CD (in SPSS Programmability Extension)
- Ability
to create first-class, user-defined procedures (in SPSS Programmability
Extension)
- Syntax control of output files (in SPSS Programmability
Extension)
- Generalized linear models (in SPSS Advanced Models)
- Generalized
estimating equations (in SPSS Advanced Models)
- Ordinal regression
to model ordinal outcomes
- Complex samples ordinal regression
(in SPSS Complex Samples)
- Estimation and imputation of ordered-categorical
and censored data (in Amos 7.0 structural equation modeling
software)
- Dual-Y axis and overlay charts
- Enhanced process control
charts
- Export output to PDF (in SPSS Base)
- Data-free client (in SPSS Server)
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- Data-free client (in SPSS Server)
- User interface (UI) for scoring (in SPSS Server)
- Predictor selection algorithm (in SPSS Server)
- Naïve Bayes algorithm (in SPSS Server)
- Clone dataset command
- Open multiple datasets within a single SPSS session
- Long value labels (up to 120 bytes)
- Read/write Stata® files
- Support for Dimensions Data Model™ and traditional market research software
- OLE DB data access
- Control the flow of your syntax jobs using third-party
programming languages (through SPSS Programmability Extension)
- Validate Data procedure (in SPSS Data Validation™)
- Anomaly detection for multivariate outliers (in SPSS Data
Validation)
- Enhanced SPSS Trends™ add-on module with Expert Modeler
- Bayesian estimation—MCMC algorithm (in Amos™ 6.0 structural equation modeling software)
- Data imputation, including multiple imputation (in Amos
6.0 structural equation modeling software)
- Run significance
tests on multiple response variables (in SPSS Tables™)
- Exclude categories used in subtotal calculations from significance
tests (in SPSS Tables)
- Preference scaling (PREFSCAL) procedure;
syntax only (in SPSS Categories™)
- Chart Builder user interface for graphics
- Support for SPSS Inc.'s Graphics Production Language
(GPL)
- 2-D line charts and charts for multiple response
sets
- Network license reservations and priority settings
- Network commuter license
# License manager redundancy
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In-database data preparation (sort and aggregate) to improve
performance (SPSS Server only)
- Create and save PMML models for scoring data at a later
time (SPSS Server only)
- Date and Time Wizard
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Very long text strings (up to 32,767 bytes)
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Interactive interface for the Output Management System (OMS)
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Complex samples general linear model (GLM) (in SPSS Complex
Samples add-on module)
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Complex samples logistic regression (in SPSS Complex Samples
add-on module)
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SPSS Classification Trees™ add-on module
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Multiple correspondence analysis (in SPSS Categories™ add-on module)
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Population pyramids (also called mirror charts or dual charts),
3-D bar charts,
and dot charts (also called dot density charts)
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Additional chart display features/options, including paneled
charts and error bars on categorical charts
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Export output to Microsoft® PowerPoint®
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- 64-bit version of SPSS Server (coming soon)
- Identify Duplicate Cases tool
- Long variable names (up to 64 bytes)
- Multithreaded ODBC (in SPSS Server)
- Output Management System (turn pivot table output, such
as SPSS data files, XML, and HTML into data/input)
- Presentation graphics system
- SPSS Complex Samples™ add-on module
- SPSS Manuals on CD, featuring manuals in PDF format for
SPSS Base and all add-on modules
- Stepwise Multinomial Regression (in SPSS Regression Models™
add-on module)
- Support for Open SSL
- Visual Bander to easily create bands (e.g., break income
into income "bands" of 10,000)
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- Export data to recent versions of Excel® and SAS®
- Enhanced SPSS Tables™ add-on module
- Export output to Excel
- Export output to Word
- Switch output language
- Data prep tools to get your data ready for analysis
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- Support for communication between SPSS for Windows and SPSS
Server
- Restructure Data Wizard
- Descriptive ratio statistics
- Improved scalability and performance of Multinomial Logistic
Regression (completed in version 10.1 in SPSS Regression Models
module
- Improved scalability and performance of Proximities and Hierarchical
Cluster Analysis (completed in SPSS 10.1)
- Linear mixed models (a.k.a. Hierarchical Linear Models; in
SPSS Advanced Models™ module)
- Percent change in OLAP Cubes
- Online case studies
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- Each module on the desktop has a related module server
available (for SPSS Server)
- Conversion-free/copy-free data access in SQL DBMS (in SPSS
Server)
- Data stays on server, which is where procedures run (in
SPSS Server)
- Download data only if you want to (in SPSS Server)
- SPSS client can be used with all licensed SPSS Servers
- Actively manage temp file consolidation
- Direct Excel interface
- Large file capability
- New flexible Data Editor
- Read recent SAS files
- Ability to run multiple SPSS sessions at one time and switch
sessions
- CATPCA and PROXSCAL (in SPSS Categories™ add-on module)
- PLUM (in SPSS Advanced Models add-on module)
- SPSS Maps™ add-on module
- XML file export for model deployment with SmartScore™
- Text Wizard
- Multinomial logistic regression (in SPSS Regression Models
add-on module)
- Reliability and ALSCAL Multidimensional Scaling and matrix
operations (in SPSS Base)
- ROC (Receiver-Operating Characteristic) analysis
- Customization options: secondary axis, reference lines, hiding
and reordering categories, specifying min/max values from dialog
box, spikes
- IGRAPH Scripting
- Table to graph
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- Long variable labels in dialogs
- Chart Looks
- Chart rotation and lighting controls
- Chart types: ribbon, error bar on bar chart, plotted pie,
true 3-D bar and true 3-D pie
- Interactive chart types: stacked bar, area and multiple
response
- IGRAPH (Interactive graphs)
- Draft Viewer/Text output and control
- Layered Reports/OLAP cubes
- Results Coach™
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- 256 character-length labels
- Customizable toolbar
- Database Wizard
- Cluster analysis (in SPSS Base)
- Discriminant analysis (in SPSS Base)
- Factor analysis (in SPSS Base)
- GLM (in SPSS Advanced Models add-on module)
- Varcomp (in Advanced Models add-on module)
- HTML output
- Output Navigator/Viewer
- Pivot tables/Report cubes
- Output scripting programming in BASIC
- TableLooks™
- Statistical Coach™
Can't find a features list for SPSS 6.1 on
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