IBM SPSS Statistics
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SPSS is good for the basics and for beginners
What do you like best about the product?
SPSS is a good basic statistical software for all of your basic analytical needs. The point-and-click usability and menus are nice when you exploring what to do with your data, and the data editor is a nice feature to have to look over and through your data and variables quickly. The data editor is one of my favorite features of SPSS. The layout (syntax, output, data editor) is also user-friendly and straightforward. It's good for people just stepping into statistical software and for when you need to go back and forth among them or between SPSS and other programs.
What do you dislike about the product?
I was trained in STATA, SAS, and Mplus and am used to writing in syntax, which is oftentimes faster if you know what you're doing. SPSS's syntax is not, in my opinion, very user-friendly or easy to manipulate. There are a lot of options and specifications that need to be made underneath the main commands, but I find them hard to remember and a bit complex. Therefore, typing out my desired code is not very feasible, so I have to rely on the point-and-click menus. For running a high volume of short analyses quickly, this becomes a little frustrating. Also, if you are running complex, multilevel models, for example, SPSS is not powerful enough to do that.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
My work is in behavioral health research. SPSS is one of the standard tools for those in psychology, so it's been easy to share my work with colleagues using SPSS.
IBM SPSS Statistics
What do you like best about the product?
IBM SPSS Statistics is a very robust and user friendly statistics package. SPSS not only gives you the ability to "automate" analysis through syntax scripting, but it also offers a very easy to use "point and click" analysis interface. SPSS is suitable for people at all levels of use (from students to professionals).
What do you dislike about the product?
I really do not have any dislikes. I have been using SPSS for over 10 years and it has always met my needs.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
IBM SPSS Statistics allows us to analyze our data at so many levels. We can quickly do descriptive statistics and also have the ability to dive deep into the data with very high level analysis.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I would highly recommend IBM SPSS Statistics to anyone who is looking for a statistics software. With over 10 years of experience with the software I haven't been happier with a program I use most days.
Powerful industry stats package
What do you like best about the product?
There are many powerful statistical tools that are available within this one package. Each has a plethora of options.
What do you dislike about the product?
Although I find it to be one of the most user-friendly stats packages, that's not saying much. Because of the many data parameters that must be specified, and the vast number of options, it is still easy to get confused. Thankfully, SPSS is so popular, there are many tutorials online.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I perform statistical analysis of my experiment results using SPSS and it has allowed me to visualize my data, analyze my data, and also share my data sets with other SPSS users.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
There is a trial version available, so try that if you are at all interested. There are also Python programming tools to help automate the gathering of data for analysis.
Great Statistics Tool
What do you like best about the product?
You can do everything with SPSS and there are almost no limits. You can work with huge data files ect.
What do you dislike about the product?
If you have Simple Tasks I still prefer the easiness of excel over SPSS. Because the GUI of SPSS is not perfect so for normal day to day routine I stick to that.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
From basic statistics like histograms to huge chunks of data analysis.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Only buy it if you really use a lot of statistic and more complicated statistics. For you day to day work other software works as well.
Powerful statistical software - not for the faint hearted
What do you like best about the product?
You can do a lot in it - and it has support for R and Python so really you can do everything in it. Extremely flexible software. An excellent statistical software package, but really needs some statistical background.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not particularly well suited to market research data. You can run all sorts of statistical analyses easily in SPSS, but producing a simple report of cross-tabulations for all your data is time consuming because SPSS doesn't easily allow you to apply different filters to different questions. Great statistical tool but poor for viewing and analysing market research data at an overall level. Also, while SPSS has python and R support, it's not easy to work out how to actually get these features to work. Very poor customer service - if you have a question about using the software you're much much better off looking on online forums than trying to contact SPSS directly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Market research applications - typical uses are for factor analysis, regression analysis, CHAID/CRT/QUEST analysis, ANOVA/MANOVA
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Requires quite a bit of learning to become familiar with the software, and is something you ideally need to use with some frequency to get the most out of it. However, many of the statistical functions have simple menus you can use to get to what you want. Ideally though you need to know at least a little bit about scripting. Only for those who have had some stats training.
SPSS moving to be more about Business Analytics
What do you like best about the product?
SPSS is very easy to use. This is likely based in their Social Science roots. It has a very powerful syntax language, and has an easy to use implementation of SEM and advanced modelling with Amos.
What do you dislike about the product?
They are moving away from being supportive of the Social Sciences. Still a great product for this, but their increases in pricing take away accessibility for many students. Their old student offerings were fantastic, but are now too expensive.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I used SPSS all throughout my education and we now use it as the main teaching package in our department.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If pricing is becoming an issue and you need more features geared towards academic and social science research, consider Stata
solid product
What do you like best about the product?
it's very user-friendly -- the drop-down menus for tests etc are useful and very straight forward.
What do you dislike about the product?
it would be good if the code aspect was a little easier to use and more readily available. Also, it would be useful if it were easier to search for tests run and edit data.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
i do a lot of statistical analyses, it's very good for people who don't know how to use different methods for statistical analysis
Recommendations to others considering the product:
it's definitely user-friendly
What everyone uses, so get used to it
What do you like best about the product?
It's the standard in the industry, so I like that knowing the software translates across the industry. I also like the easy integration with microsoft programming
What do you dislike about the product?
User friendliness is somewhat lacking, occasionally glitchy
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We leverage SPSS statistics to analyze our retail trends as well as a predictive measure of future innovation success dependent on research inputs
SPSS, nicer graphics, good for click commands
What do you like best about the product?
I like the graphics in SPSS. The graphs look nice and are easy to manipulate, making it much easier to switch an axis or variable by using the graphing menu instead of re-writing the syntax. It is easier to "guess and check" rather than looking up the correct syntax to type to make a switch. I also like the point and click analysis features, you don't have to remember specific syntax language to get the commands.
What do you dislike about the product?
I dislike how easy it is to change a dataset. Although I understand that the ease of changing an error is a tempting feature, I think it is much easier to make accidental mistakes in your data since it is so easily available to change. One click and a data point goes away! While in other software, you have to write something deliberately to change the dataset you are working with.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
health services research questions.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Psychologists use this product a lot, so if you are heading in the psychology field, get some experience with this software! Also beware of human error in changing the data, try not to make quick edits to the dataset unless you need to and document it elsewhere!
Great statistic software
What do you like best about the product?
friendly-user software. Figures look great!
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes it's not easy to write codes. It should be better to have SAS book with you which will be very helpful.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am analyzing health data with this software and it helps me a lot with dealing with non parametric data analysis.
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