SPSS 12 Portable

SPSS 12.0 includes enhanced reporting capabilities based on a new graphics system that enables users to produce presentation-quality graphs. The new system features enhanced production graphics, expanded control over chart appearance at the time of creation and editing, and customizable chart templates.

Improved Data and Output Management
SPSS 12.0 boasts several new features that enable greater custom control for data and output management:

* Visual Bander is a data manipulation tool that allows users to intelligently create bands for numeric data (e.g., breaking ages into demographic groups).
* Longer variable names enable users to import and describe data files that have extended names.
* Identify Duplicate Cases helps users to cleanse data by identifying and filtering duplicate records.

* The Output Management System (OMS) enables end-users and application developers to create SPSS output from either SPSS data files, XML, HTML, or text files, enabling users to develop customer programs and applications.

Additionally, SPSS 12.0 includes a read-only option, which provides users with the choice to make datasets “read-only,” preserving original data and preventing future alterations. It also includes a data file comments function, which enables users to add notations within individual data files.

“Long variable names is a terrific new feature in SPSS 12.0. In the past, I have spent hour’s desperately inventing cryptic eight-character names for database variables with very long but only slightly less cryptic names. Thank you for implementing it!” - Paula Pelletier, Associate Director of Institutional Research, Stony Brook University.

Better Analysis of Survey Data
The new SPSS Complex Samples™ 12.0 add-on module allows survey, market, health, and public opinion researchers, as well as social scientists who use sample survey methodology, to incorporate their complex sample designs into data analysis. Containing specialized planning tools and statistics, SPSS Complex Samples enables users to achieve more statistically valid inferences for populations measured in complex sample data.

“With the new features in SPSS 12.0, we are building on a product that is a proven leader in both data management and survey analysis,” said Dr. Kyle Weeks, senior product manager, SPSS Inc. “By responding to the feedback we received in our annual Customer Satisfaction Survey, the new version of SPSS directly addresses the needs of our core users, including analysts, statisticians, and researchers.”

SPSS for Windows is SPSS Inc.’s premier data analysis software that features a wide range of analytic techniques and presentation graphics. Several add-on modules are available to expand the analytical capabilities of the base software, including:

* SPSS Advanced Models for analyzing complex relationships
* SPSS Categories for discovering unique relationships in categorical data
* SPSS Regression Models for improving predictions with a variety of non-linear modeling procedures

SPSS 12.0 works seamlessly with other SPSS Inc. software to produce integrated systems for industry-specific applications. For example, combining SPSS 12.0 with SPSS Data Entry™ and SmartViewer® Web Server creates a complete survey research system that includes data collection, data analysis and report distribution. More information about SPSS 12.0 can be found at www.spss.com/spss.

Minimum System Requirements
Microsoft Windows 98/2000 Professional or NT 4.0 Workstation (Service Pack 5 and above), ME and XP
Pentium-class processor
28MB RAM, minimum
220MB hard disk space
SVGA monitor