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Easily Identify Your Best Customers - PDF file

This paper focuses on how a company might identify its best or most valuable customers, but the same processes could be used for other customer segments. Knowledge about your best customers—their attitudes, purchase patterns, and demographic profiles—is the key to developing and implementing successful marketing and customer relationship management programs.

This white paper demonstrates how you could analyze a customer database using SPSS Inc.’s predictive analytics software. The integrated product family for statistical analysis and data management supports you throughout the analytic process, whether you perform your analysis from a single desktop computer or across an extended network.

Excerpt from Data Warehousing: Strategies, Technologies and Techniques: Statistical Analysis - PDF file
Data mining is uncovering the hidden meaning and relationships in the massive amounts of data stored in the data warehouse. In short, the value of the data warehouse lies in the information that can be derived from its data through the mining process. (DMWP)

Five Predictive Imperatives for Maximizing Customer Value - PDF file

Learn about the five “predictive imperatives”—essential best practices for improving customer relationships with predictive analytics, identified through SPSS Inc.'s more than 40 years of experience with a wide range of companies.

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How to get more value from your survey data - PDF file
This white paper introduces you to four types of advanced analysis—cluster, factor, reliability, and regression—that can help you gain more important insights that you might miss using more basic methods. By expanding your survey analysis toolkit, you can delve deeper into your data to increase your understanding of survey responses and respondents. Download this white paper today to learn more about these important analysis methods. (HMVSWP-1203)

Increase Customer Value with Predictive Analytics - PDF file

This white paper describes how gaming organizations can address common business problems and ultimately increase customer value through the use of predictive analytics.It includes a definition and overview of predictive analytics, along with specific solutions and applications for gaming organizations.

Linear mixed-effects modeling in PASW Statistics - PDF file

The linear mixed-effects model (MIXED) procedure in PASW Statistics enables you to fit linear mixed-effects models to data sampled from normal distributions. This report illustrates the types of models that MIXED handles and compares MIXED to the general linear model (GLM) and variance components (VARCOMP) procedures.

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Mass Valuation with PASW Statistics - PDF file

PASW Statistics is a powerful statistical analytical product that provides an ideal toolset for assessors and others engaged in property valuation. It works in conjunction with all common databases and computer-assisted mass appraisal (CAMA) packages. Assessors can PASW Statistics to enhance their existing CAMA systems in a variety of ways. This white paper outlines some of the most common applications by providing an overview of the principle SPSS features assessors use and examples of valuation output in PASW Statistics. Written by Robert J. Gloudemans of Almy, Gloudemans, Jacobs & Denne.

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Nucleus Research - IBM and SPSS: Analytics for Everyone - PDF file
IBM's SPSS acquisition gives SPSS users a broader support network, IBM Cognos users a predictive analytics platform, and more enterprise users one-stop shopping. Looking to the future, that could mean analytics - and better predictive decision making - on every desktop.

Nucleus Research - IBM and SPSS: Analytics for Everyone - Web Page
IBM's SPSS acquisition gives SPSS users a broader support network, IBM Cognos users a predictive analytics platform, and more enterprise users one-stop shopping. Looking to the future, that could mean analytics - and better predictive decision making - on every desktop.

Nucleus Research Reveals the Real ROI of SPSS Predictive Analytics - PDF file
Predictive analytics solutions take a step beyond basic business intelligence tools, using complex statistical models and algorithms as well as other data mining and analysis tools. One of the key vendors in this space, SPSS offers predictive analytic applications, data mining and text mining tools, and comprehensive statistical analysis software to support decision making processes.

Satisfaction survey analysis using statistics: You'll be delighted with the results - PDF file

Satisfaction surveys are an important tool for assessing the satisfaction of your customers, employees, patients and readers. Without a reliable way to analyze the responses, however, you risk making important decisions based on incomplete or superficial information.

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Statistics in government - PDF file

Why use statistics? What are the benefits of using an advanced statistical tool? This white paper highlights the strategic advantages of using statistical analysis techniques.

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The How’s and Why’s of Survey Research - PDF file

Survey research is much more than simply asking someone a few questions. It’s a multiple step process with a clearly defined protocol at each step. This white paper discusses survey research by breaking it up into a seven-step process—and clearly detailing how you maximize your efforts every step of the way. At each stage, it also shows how technology can improve your results to make the entire survey research process easier and more effective.

The Risks of Using Spreadsheets for Statistical Analysis - PDF file

While spreadsheets are popular and useful tools, some tasks are beyond the limits of their capabilities. Download this white paper to learn the risks you may be running by using a spreadsheet instead of SPSS Inc. statistical software to carry out statistical calculations.

Thinking About Exact Statistics - PDF file

In this article, we review the fundamentals of statistical testing, define the concept of an exact test, and give an example. Note that we focus on Type 1 errors and do not directly address the subjects of Type II error or statistical power.

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Using satisfaction surveys to achieve a competitive advantage - PDF file

The technology available to both you and your competitors has made it easier to duplicate each other's products or services. Excellent customer satisfaction is one of the few ways to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage.

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PASW Statistics 18 - (305MB)

PASW Statistics™ is a modular, tightly integrated, full-featured software comprised of PASW Statistics Base and a range of modules. Each module—PASW Advanced Statistics, PASW Bootstrapping, PASW Categories, PASW Complex Samples, PASW Conjoint, PASW Custom Tables, PASW Data Preparation, PASW Decision Trees, PASW Direct Marketing, PASW Exact Tests, PASW Forecasting, PASW Missing Values, PASW Neural Networks, and PASW Regression—adds extra functionality to your system.

This evaluation version will install the entire PASW Statistics package for 21 days for Windows and 21 days for Mac. This version is to be used only to review, demonstrate and evaluate PASW Statistics, and cannot be reinstalled once the time period has expired. 64-bit is now available for Windows though not as a trial version. For purchasing options, please contact SPSS Inc. sales at salesbox@us.ibm.com.

This trial version is a pre-purchase evaluation, and is not meant for student course work. If you are a student, view our options available for students.