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PASW Statistics 17 Site License

PASW Statistics 17 (the new name for SPSS 17) for Windows can be licensed at reduced cost from OIT through the University of Massachusetts site license. The license includes Base, Advanced and Regression modules, and is only valid for faculty and staff at the Amherst campus and the Medical School. Site licenses require an initial fee and an annual renewal fee. For current pricing, see OITs Site License information page.

SPSS software has been renamed PASW Statistics. It is the same software. If you use the spss website, be sure to use the new name in order to get the latest information.

Students can get SPSS 17 with a 6 or 12 month license for Windows or Macintosh through SPSS e-academy, or the SPSS Grad Pack 4-year license from the University store. The Grad Pack contains SPSS Base, Advanced and Regression modules.

System Requirements for PASW Statistics17

• Windows XP (32-bit) or Vista (32 or 64-bit).
• Intel or AMD x86 processor, 1GHz or higher.
• 512MB or more of random access memory. 1GB or more is recommended.
• 650MB of available hard disk space.
• A CD-ROM drive
• A graphics adaptor with 800x600 resolution (SVGA) or higher.
• Internet Explorer 6.0.

Licensing PASW Statistics

Please contact the OIT Administrative Desk at 545-9730 or stop by A119 LGRC (Monday - Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.).

When you license PASW Statistics from OIT, you will receive an "authorization code" that enables installation on as many machines as you have licensed. During installation you will use your authorization code to contact SPSS to activate your license(s). Each license is "locked" to a machine. You can re-install the software on the same machine, provided you save your existing license. Your authorization code will not work for re-licensing.

Download and Installation Instructions

Upgrade from earlier releases

Current SPSS licenses are paid up through June 30. When you pay your annual renewal fee, you can upgrade to PASW Statistics 17 at no additional cost. Your new authorization code will be for PASW Statistics 17 unless you request to NOT to upgrade.

SPSS Inc. does not support software more than one version lower than its most recent releases.

Technical Support and Consulting

OIT provides technical support for installation and license renewal only. Contact Eva Goldwater, 413-545-2949. Consulting on software usage and statistical questions is available through the Biostatistics Consulting Center.

Compatibility with earlier releases

PASW Statistics 17 Output documents (*.spv) cannot be read by SPSS 15 or earlier releases, and Output documents saved by SPSS 15 or earlier releases (*.spo) cannot be read by SPSS 16 or later. Download and install SPSS Legacy Viewer (aka SmartViewer 15) for reading output files from SPSS 15 or earlier.

PASW Statistics 17 Data (*.sav) files and Syntax (*.sps) files can be used with earlier releases, provided they don't use features introduced in a later release.

PASW Statistics 17 can read data files (*.sav) and syntax files (*.sps), from earlier releases.

Interactive Graph (IGRAPH)is being phased out gradually. In version 18, the user interface will no longer be available, but saved IGRAPH syntax will still run. In version 19, IGRAPH syntax will no longer work.  Save your IGRAPH syntax and run it through the syntax converter, which will convert the IGRAPH syntax to GGRAPH syntax, to prepare for future upgrades. Replacement of IGraph engine has changed the behavior of some IGraph features.

SPSS Production Facility jobs (*.spp) created in SPSS 15 or earlier releases must be converted to version 16 and later (*.spj) format.  A conversion utility is available to do this.

TableLooks created in versions prior to SPSS 16.0 cannot be used in SPSS 16.0 or later versions.

SPSS Tables Original (Basic Tables, General Tables, Multiple Response Tables, Tables of Frequencies) user interface for is no longer available. Although your existing TABLES syntax should continue to work, TABLES syntax is no longer supported. Convert your TABLES syntax to CTABLES syntax using the syntax converter available on your CD. See Help → Tables Option>TABLES Command Syntax Converter for more information.

Draft Viewer is no longer supported. There are two alternatives for creating text output similar to the Draft Viewer.  You can Export viewer output with  text options, or use the Output Management System (OMS).

See http://www.spss.com/statistics/changes.htm for more complete list of changes introduced in PASW Statistics 17.

What's New in PASW Statistics 17

THe following are a few highlights of new features. For more new features, go to http://www.spss.com/spss/whats_new.htm

• Beginning with 17.0.2 patch, SPSS software has been renamed PASW Statistics.
• The enhanced syntax editor has auto-completion and color coding to help you write and correct your syntax more quickly.
• New LEAD function gets values of variables from subsequent cases.
• New Codebook procedure automatically creates a codebook with variable names, labels, etc.
• Nearest Neighbor Analysis (KNN Procedure) enables you to group similar cases, for example for case-control studies.
• Search and replace functionality in the Output Viewer.

Introduced in SPSS 16

Data and Output Management:

• Import/Export SPSS data and Output form/to Excel 2007.
• Change the string length or the data type of an existing variable, using syntax.
• Define missing values and labels for data strings of any length.
• Find and replace information in the Data Editor.
• Spell check value and variable labels.

Statistical Analysis :

• Generalized Linear Models (GENLIN) and Generalized Estimating Equations (GEE) procedures.

Programmability
SPSS Programmability Integration Plug-Ins provide a link to enable SPSS Syntax jobs to use external programming languages.  SPSS Currently offers the following plug-ins:

• SPSS-Python Integration Plug-In
• SPSS-.NET Integration Plug-In
• SPSS-R Integration Plug-In

Introduced in SPSS 15

Data and Output Management:

• Export SPSS data to MS Access and other databases.
• Export SPSS results to pdf documents.
• Work more easily with very wide data files by customizing variable sets. Reduce the variable view to a subset of selected variables, while keeping the entire file loaded and available for analysis.

Graphics:

• Expanded Chart Types and Options in Chart Builder. New chart types include Dual-Y axis and overlay charts.

Introduced in SPSS 14

• Open multiple datasets within a single SPSS session
• Better describe categorical data with value labels up to 120 characters long.
• Clone or duplicate datasets
• Access data in SPSS using the latest versions of popular operating systems and databases. SPSS 14.0 updates the Data Access Pack to Connect ODBC 5.1
• Charts for multiple response sets
• Drag and drop Chart Builder interface for commonly used chart types. You can see a limited preview of the chart as it is being built, use multiple templates and select interpolation types for lines and areas. For easy access in the future, save customized charts in your Favorites.

Introduced in SPSS 13

The following is a highlight of features introduced with SPSS 13.

Data and Output management:

• Support for long data strings (up to 32,767 bytes).
• Date and Time Wizard helps you calculate with dates and times, bring date/time data from a variety of sources to SPSS, create a date/time variable from a string containing a date variable, and parse individual date/time units.
• View wide and long datasets using splitter controls in the Data Editor
• Automatically convert string variables to numeric variables using the improved autorecode command
• Save aggregated values directly to your active file using the improved aggregate command
• Conveniently share data between SPSS 13.0 and SAS ® 9.0. SPSS 13.0 can read/write SAS 9 files.
• Export tables and charts directly from SPSS 13.0 to Microsoft® PowerPoint®

Graphics:

• Three new chart types in your work - population pyramids, 3-D bar charts, and Dot Density charts.
• New chart display features/options in your graphs
• Paneled charts for displaying sub-chart in a table-like arrangement, showing differences among groups and conditioning variables. Paneled charts are available for most SPSS graphs.
• Include error bars on categorical charts. Add error bars to nearly any categorical chart, including bar charts, area plots, and line plots
• Add diagonal reference lines to compare your data to a diagonal line. Also, drag horizontal and vertical reference lines to any position on the axis

Statistics: New options available for multinomial logistic regression (MLR) in the SPSS Regression Models add-on module enable you to:

• Score and Wald methods for stepwise selection in MLR
• Assess your model fit using Aikaike information criterion (AIC) and Bayesian information criterion (BIC; also called Schwarz Bayesian Criterion, or SBC)