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Additional Publications
For additional information about the features and operations of SPSS Base 13.0,
you can cons
ult the SPSS Base 13.0 User’s Guide, which includes information on
standard graphics. Examples using the statistical procedures found in SPSS Base 13.0
are provided in the Help system, installed with the software. Algorithms used in the
statistic
al procedures are available on the product CD-ROM.
In addition, beneath the menus and dialog boxes, SPSS uses a command language.
Some extended features of the system can be accessed only via command syntax.
(Those fea
tures are not available in the Student Version.) Complete command syntax
is documented in the SPSS 13.0 Command Syntax Reference, available in PDF form
from the Help menu.
Individu
als worldwide can order additional product manuals directly from SPSS
Inc. For telephone orders in the United States and Canada, call SPSS Inc. at
800-543-2185. For telephone orders outside of North America, contact your local
office,
listed on the SPSS Web site at http://www.spss.com/worldwide.
The SPSS Statistical Procedures Companion, by Marija Norušis, has been
published by Prentice Hall. It contains overviews of the procedures in the SPSS
Base, pl
us Logistic Regression and General Linear Models. A Statistical Procedures
Companion covering advanced procedures is forthcoming.
SPSS Options
The following options are available as add-on enhancements to the full (not Student
Versio
n) SPSS Base system:
SPSS Re
gression Models™
provides techniques for analyzing data that do not fit
traditional linear statistical models. It includes procedures for probit analysis, logistic
regression, weight estimation, two-stage least-squares regression, and general
nonlin
ear regression.
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