What’s New in SPSS 16.0?
Kyle Weeks, Ph.D.
Director, Product Management
SPSS Inc.
USA
SPSS 16.0 continues our rich tradition of regularly adding significant, new features to our flagship software. As a current SPSS user, you’ll want to attend this session and learn what’s new.
SPSS 16.0 offers:
- A new Java interface to SPSS allowing for Windows, Mac, and Linux versions of SPSS, a searchable Output Viewer, resizable dialogs and more
- More powerful statistics, including a new Neural Networks add-on module, a new Partial Least Squares algorithm, a new Cox Regression for Complex Samples module, support for algorithms written in R and improvements to Generalized Linear Models and General Estimating Equations
- More powerful data management with features such as Unicode support, import/export of Excel 2007 data, and an improved Data Editor
- Improved programmability, which provides the ability to extend the SPSS product with the full capabilities of the Python programming language
- Support for the Predictive Enterprise both with multithreaded algorithms and with the SPSS Adapter for SPSS Predictive Enterprise Services, which provides a centralized, secure, auditable repository for your analytical assets and processes
Breakout Session 3: Monday, 14 May 2007
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Dear SPSS Customer:
The purpose of this e-mail is to inform you of some planned changes to the user interface in our SPSS Trends and SPSS Tables add-on modules with the release of SPSS 16.0 for Windows.
First, some background: when SPSS released SPSS 11.5, we came out with a new Tables module. Even though the functionality in the old Tables module (Tables Original) was subsumed by the new SPSS Tables module, we kept all the original dialogs to make the transition easier for customers. We did the same thing when we migrated from Trends Original to the current Trends module in SPSS 13.0.
With the release of SPSS 16.0, we will remove all the old dialogs that still remain from the Trends Original and Tables Original add-on modules. Although the user interface to these older modules will be removed, your existing syntax from Tables Original and Trends Original will continue to work. This will allow us to focus on developing new features and enhancements that are important to customers, instead of supporting redundant features.
Here are the details for each module:
SPSS TRENDS 16.0?the following three dialogs will be removed:
* Exponential Smoothing
* Autoregression
* ARIMA
The remaining dialogs include:
* Create Models
* Apply Models
* Seasonal Decomposition
* Spectral Analysis
SPSS TABLES 16.0?the following four dialogs will be removed:
* Basic Tables
* General Tables
* Multiple Response Tables
* Tables of Frequencies
The remaining dialogs include:
* Custom Tables
* Multiple Response Sets
Again, all the features previously found in the removed dialogs will be available through the use of syntax.
Sincerely,
SPSS Inc.
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Chicago, IL 60606-6307
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