User Guide

SPSS Tables™ creates a variety of presentation-quality tabular reports, including
complex stub-and-banner tables and displays of multiple response data.
SPSS Trends™
performs comprehensive forecasting and time series analyses with
multiple curve-fitting models, smoothing models, and methods for estimating
autoregressive functions.
SPSS Categor
ies®
performs optimal scaling procedures, including correspondence
analysis.
SPSS Conjoint™ performs conjoint analysis.
SPSS Exact T
ests™
calculates exact p values for statistical tests when small or very
unevenly distributed samples could make the usual tests inaccurate.
SPSS Missing Value Analysis™ describes patterns of missing data, estimates means
and other st
atistics, and imputes values for missing observations.
SPSS Maps™ turns your geographically distributed data into high-quality maps with
symbols, colors, bar charts, pie charts, and combinations of themes to present not
only what i
s happening but where it is happening.
SPSS Complex Samples™ allows survey, market, health, and public opinion
researchers, as well as social scientists who use sample survey methodology, to
incorpora
te their complex sample designs into data analysis.
SPSS Classification Trees™ creates a tree-based classification model. It classifies
cases into groups or predicts values of a dependent (target) variable based on values
of indepe
ndent (predictor) variables. The procedure provides validation tools for
exploratory and confirmatory classification analysis.
The SPSS family of products also includes applications for data entry, text analysis,
classifi
cation, neural networks, and flowcharting.
Installation
To install the Base system, run the License Authorization Wizard using the
authori
zation code that you received from SPSS Inc. For more information, see the
installation instructions supplied with the SPSS Base system.
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