Milbert R de Gracia

BSAC 2-2

Exercise #10

IBM SPSS Statistics software

Delivers a powerful set of statistical features that enable your organization to make the most of the
valuable information your data provides. By digging deeper into your data, you can discover information
to improve decision making— ultimately expanding markets, improving research outcomes, ensuring
regulatory compliance, managing risk and maximizing ROI to name a few.

IBM SPSS Statistics features robust and sophisticated functionality and procedures that address the
entire analytics lifecycle:

1. Addresses all facets of the analytical process from data preparation and management to analysis
and reporting.
2. Improves forecasts and plans by imputing missing values with expected values using regression and
expectation-maximization.
3. Provides automated methods to identify anomalies and statistical transformations to address
outliers.
4. Delivers tables and visualizations to communicate results effectively.
5. Classifies cases into groups and predicts values of a target variables based on values of predictor
variables.
6. Enables accurate modeling of linear and non-linear relationships

The advantages of using SPSS as a software package compared to other are:

1. SPSS is a comprehensive statistical software.

2. Many complex statistical tests are available as a built in feature.
3. Interpretation of results is relatively easy.
4. Easily and quickly displays data tables.
5. Can be expanded.

The disadvantages of using SPSS as a software package compared to other are:

1. SPSS can be expensive to purchase for students.

2. Usually involves added training to completely exploit all the available features.
3. The graph features are not as simple as of Microsoft Excel.