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1 IBM United States Software Announcement210-317, dated October 5, 2010 IBM United States Software Announcement 210-317 IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation1 ibm spss Statistics helps you take advantage ofanalytical resourcesTable of contents1 Overview 8 Technical information 2 Key prerequisites 9 Ordering information 2 Planned availability date 43 Terms and conditions 2 Description 45 Prices 8 Program number 46 Order now 8 PublicationsAt a glanceIBM spss Statistics supports the entire analytical process and: helps you validate assumptions faster, guiding you in using the right statisticalcapability at the right time Gives analysts flexible access to a depth of analytical power, whatever their levelof analytical expertise Makes the most of your analytical resources , scaling from the simplest initiativeto the most widespread endeavorFor ordering, contact your IBM representative, an IBM Business Partner, or IBMA mericas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL (Reference: YE001).

2 OverviewSPSS Statistics is the most widely used advanced analytic tool by commercial,government, and academic organizations worldwide to solve a range of businessand research problems. It offers rich statistical capabilities paired with features thatmake it easier to access and manage data, select and perform analyses, and , as the analysis of data has become more important and widespread,organizations often find they have disparate, disconnected sets of tools to help themthrough the data analysis process, from planning to deployment. This results inprocess inefficiencies, steeper learning curves, and headaches for Statistics can help: Streamline your process for data analysis and reporting. Instead of usingmultiple tools and resources during the analysis process, analysts can insteaduse a single, integrated suite of products.

3 This simplifies not only the jobsof analysts and their managers but also those of the organization's technicalsupport staff. Give analysts flexible access to a depth of analytical power, whatever their levelof analytical expertise. Test and validate assumptions faster and discover additional informationefficiently, using the right statistical capability at the right Statistics includes multiple interfaces to major functions, from a menu-drivenuser interface for the business analyst to command syntax and programmableextensibility for the analytic United States Software Announcement 210-317 IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation2 The spss Statistics product family has the most comprehensive set of tools forthe entire analytical process. Easy access to multiple data types and integratedadd-on modules give analysts what they need for the tasks at hand.

4 Also, theyhave the reporting and deployment capabilities to provide insight and communicateresults quickly and clearly. Although each module can be purchased individually, thefollowing bundled offerings address most analysis requirements and represent thebest Statistics Desktop bundles include: Statistics Standard: Statistics Base Advanced Statistics Regression Custom Tables Statistics Professional (all the function of the Statistics Standard, plus): Data Preparation Missing Values Forecasting Categories Decision Trees Statistics Premium (all the function of the Statistics Professional, plus): Direct Marketing Complex Samples Conjoint Neural Networks Bootstrapping Exact Tests SamplePower Visualization Designer AmosThe spss Statistics Server bundled offerings (Standard, Professional, andPremium) include all the function of the desktop offerings except.

5 spss SamplePower spss Visualization Designer spss AmosKey prerequisitesRefer to the Software requirements availability dateOctober 5, 2010 DescriptionSPSS Statistics consists of spss Statistics Base plus more than a dozen modulesthat offer specialized functionality. Additional related products can easily sharedata and results with spss Statistics modules but are operated through separateIBM United States Software Announcement 210-317 IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation3interfaces. Most are available on your choice of platforms: Microsoft Windows ,Apple Mac, or Linux .With spss Statistics , every module in the spss Statistics family can be installed andrun independently or in conjunction with any other modules. spss Statistics Baseis no longer a prerequisite; capabilities such as data access and management andcharting are included in every module.

6 This gives you greater flexibility in how youinstall and use this versatile it contains statistical tests and procedures that are fundamental to manyanalyses, spss Statistics Base is still available and will continue to form the basisof many deployments. You can choose either a client-only version of spss StatisticsBase or a server-based version, which provides more powerful capabilities, increasedperformance and scalability, and more efficient Statistics makes it easy for you to quickly access, manage, and analyze anykind of dataset, including survey data, corporate databases, or data downloadedfrom the addition, spss Statistics Base can process Unicode data. This eliminatesvariability in data due to language-specific encoding and enables your organizationto view, analyze, and share data written in multiple you can analyze your data, you need to prepare it for analysis.

7 Numeroustechniques and features built into Base enable easy data preparation. Following aresummaries of just a few data management Base, you can easily set up data dictionary information (for example, valuelabels and variable types) and prepare your data for analysis more quickly using theDefine Variable Properties tool. Base presents a list of values and counts of thosevalues so you can add this you set up the data dictionary, you can apply it using the Copy Data Propertiestool. The data dictionary acts as a template, so you can apply it to other data filesand to other variables within the same makes it easy for you to identify duplicate cases, so you can eliminate thembefore your analysis. Use the Identify Duplicate Cases tool to set parameters andflag duplicates so that you can keep track of them for the , Base makes it easy to prepare continuous-level data for analysis.

8 Forexample, the Visual Binner enables you to easily break income into bands of 10,000or break ages into groups. A data pass provides a histogram that enables you tospecify cutpoints in an intelligent manner. You can then automatically create valuelabels from the specified cutpoints (for example, 21-30).Create your own dictionary information for variables with Custom Attributes. Youcan, for example, create a custom attribute that represents the full text of a surveyquestion when a code name such as demo01 is used as the variable name. You canalso create custom attributes describing transformations for a derived variable withinformation explaining how you transformed the can open multiple datasets within a single spss Statistics Base session. Thissaves time and condenses steps when you merge data files. It also helps youmaintain consistency when copying data dictionary information between multiplefiles.

9 Or, if you prefer, you can suppress the number of active enables you to restructure your data files to prepare them for analysis. Forexample, take a data file that has multiple cases per subject and restructurethe data to put all data for each subject into a single record. Base gives you theflexibility to complete the reverse action -- you can take a data file that has a singlecase per subject and spread the data across multiple the Date and Time Wizard to make calculations with dates and times, createdate/time variables from strings containing date variables (such as 03/29/06),IBM United States Software Announcement 210-317 IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation4and bring date/time data from a variety of sources into Base. You can also parseindividual date/time units, such as year, from date/time variables to apply beyond summary Statistics and row-and-column math.

10 Base gives you a widerange of statistical procedures for basic analysis, including counts, crosstabs, cluster,descriptives, factor analysis, linear regression, cluster analysis, ordinal regression,and nearest neighbor you complete your analysis, you can write data back to your database withease by using the Export to Database Wizard. For even more analytical power, useBase with other modules such as spss Regression and spss Advanced Statistics ,which focus on data Chart Builder you can easily create commonly used charts, such as scatterplotmatrices (SPLOMs), histograms, and population pyramids. This highly visual chartcreation interface enables you to create a chart by dragging variables and elementsonto a chart creation canvas. Optionally, use a shortcut method based on an existingchart in the Gallery. You can see a limited preview of the chart as it is being users can attain a broader range of chart and option possibilities by usingthe Graphics Production Language (GPL).