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title: SPSS
description: "Used to stand for \"Statistical Package for the Social Sciences\", perhaps still does! Was, perhaps still is, the dominant statistical software package in psychology but, I hope, being increasing abandoned in favour of the open source R project. #### See…"
url: "https://www.psyctc.org/psyctc/glossary2/spss/"
updated: "2026-10-30"
category: All OM book glossary entries
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# SPSS

Used to stand for "Statistical Package for the Social Sciences", perhaps still does! Was, perhaps still is, the dominant statistical software package in psychology but, I hope, being increasing abandoned in favour of the open source R project.

#### See also

- [Statistical software](https://www.psyctc.org/psyctc/glossary2/statistical-software/)
- [R project](https://www.psyctc.org/psyctc/glossary2/r-project/)

#### Online resources

- [https://www.r-project.org/CEPCfuns](https://www.r-project.org/CEPCfuns): package of R functions I’ve created, with Clara Paz hoping to make using R for PBE and change measurement easier.
- My [Rblog](https://www.psyctc.org/Rblog/): collection of posts a lot of which are about using R for our purposes and explaining how to do various things, with R code.
- My [shiny server of interactive “apps”](https://shiny.psyctc.org/index.html) are all powered by R. I hope, will make it easy to use R for PBE analyses you can’t do easily any other way … but without having to learn R.

#### Dates

Created 17.viii.23, updated 30.x.26.