SPSS an Introduction

 

SPSS Statistics is a statistical software suite developed by IBM for data management, advanced analytics, multivariate analysis, business intelligence, and criminal investigation. Long produced by SPSS Inc., it was acquired by IBM in 2009. Current versions have the brand name: IBM SPSS Statistics.  What is SPSS? SPSS is a Windows based program that can be used to perform data entry and analysis and to create tables and graphs. SPSS is capable of handling large amounts of data and can perform all of the analyses covered in the text and much more.  SPSS Statistics is used in education, market research, healthcare, government and retail throughout the entire analytics process, from planning and data collection to analysis, reporting and deployment.  SPSS introduces the following four programs that help researchers with their complex data analysis needs   1.     Statistics Program SPSS’s statistics program gives a large amount of basic statistical functionality; some include frequencies, cross-tabulation, bivariate statistics, etc. 2.     Modeler Program Researchers are able to build and validate predictive models with the help of advanced statistical procedures. 3.     Text Analytics for Surveys Program It gives robust feedback analysis. which in turn get a vision for the actual plan. 4.     Visualization Designer Researchers found this visual designer data to create a wide variety of visuals like density charts and radial box plots.