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What’s New in SPSS Base 13.0 for Mac OS X
SPSS Base 13.0 for Mac OS X provides a number of new features and capabilities to help you access and manage data, create graphics, and produce output. In addition, two new add-on modules—SPSS Classification Trees™ and SPSS Complex Samples™—enable you to more accurately work with certain data types. Enhancements to several other modules provide you with new statistics and improve the way you create and present tables.
SPSS Base 13.0 for Mac OS X enhancements
Data and access management
More powerful data management in SPSS 13.0 for Mac OS X provides you with a number of new features to save time, increase accuracy and reliability—and better manage your data. You can now:
- Prepare continuous data for analysis by using the Visual Bander. This new feature enables you to easily create bands (for example, break income into "bands" of 10,000 or break ages into groups). A data pass provides you with a histogram that allows you to specify cutpoints in an intelligent manner. You can automatically create value labels from the specified cutpoints (for example, "21-30"). Then save time by automatically creating value labels based on your cutpoints.
Using the Visual Bander, you can specify cutpoints in your data. Here, the user created interval cutpoints based on amount spent.
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- Easily work with times and dates in SPSS using the Date and Time Wizard:
- Calculate dates and times. For example, calculate the length of time someone has been a patient.
- Bring date/time data from a variety of sources to SPSS.
- Create a date/time variable from a string containing a date variable, such as "03/29/06."
- Parse individual date/time units, such as year, from date/time variables to apply filters. For example, parse start dates to examine employees who started with your organization in 2000.
- Set up data dictionary information (such as value and variable labels and variable types) by using the Define Variable Properties tool. A data pass allows SPSS to present a list of values and counts of those values so you can add information in an intelligent manner.
- Once dictionary information is set up, you can apply your information using the Copy Data Properties tool. The data dictionary information acts as a "template" so you can apply it to other data files and to other variables within the same file.
- Clean your data by identifying duplicate records through the user interface with the Identify Duplicate Copies tool. Set parameters and flag duplicates and keep track of multiple duplicates per record.
- Create your own custom programs with the Output Management System (OMS). Turn output from SPSS procedures into data (SPSS data files, XML, or HTML) to create your own programs for bootstrapping, jackknifing, and leaving one out methods, and Monte Carlo simulations.
- If you have little or no experience using syntax in SPSS, you can create custom programs through the OMS interface functionality.
- More accurately describe your data by using longer variable names. The variable name limit has been expanded from eight bytes to 64 bytes. Therefore, you can now more easily work with data from databases or spreadsheets that have longer or more complex variable naming conventions. For example, you can maintain variable names on data that you pull from and write back to a Microsoft Excel® file.
- Ensure data containing long text strings (up to 32,767 bytes) is not truncated or lost when working with open-ended question responses, data from other software that allows long data strings, and other types of long text strings.
- More quickly and easily understand your wide and long datasets by using splitter windows in Data Editor
- Prevent the accidental destruction of data by making the dataset read-only
- Export data files to current versions of Excel and SAS®
Graphics and output
Enhanced reporting capabilities in SPSS 13.0 for Mac OS X enable you to produce professional-looking graphs with ease. While the ability to export output to commonly used Microsoft Office applications gives you more options for communicating results. With SPSS 13.0 for Mac OS X, you can:
- Produce more professional-looking graphs by using the presentation graphics system. It includes features that make it easy to create the graph you want and produce readable graph output. You also have more control at both creation and edit time, which can ease your workload in a production setting. Create a chart or graph once, and then use your specifications to create hundreds more just like it.
- Further improve chart appearance by using additional chart display features and options, such as paneled charts, error bars on categorical charts, and data value labels that you can position anyplace on your chart
- Choose from new chart types to better present your data. New chart types are:
- Population pyramids (also called mirror charts or dual charts)
- 3-D bar charts
- Error bar charts
- Dot charts (also called dot density charts)
This 3-D bar chart dynamically displays customers’ shopping styles.
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- Export output to Excel, Word, and PowerPoint®
Read about the new and enhanced add-on modules.
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