{"id":3333,"date":"2023-08-17T09:02:51","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T07:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=3333"},"modified":"2026-10-30T16:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T15:10:08","password":"","slug":"spss","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/glossary2\/spss\/","title":{"rendered":"SPSS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Used to stand for &#8220;Statistical Package for the Social Sciences&#8221;, 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">See also<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/glossary2\/statistical-software\/\">Statistical software<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/glossary2\/r-project\/\">R project<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Online resources<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.r-project.org\/CEPCfuns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.r-project.org\/CEPCfuns<\/a>: package of R functions I\u2019ve created, with Clara Paz hoping to make using R for PBE and change measurement easier.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>My\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/Rblog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rblog<\/a>: collection of posts a lot of which are about using R for our purposes and explaining how to do various things, with R code.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>My\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/shiny.psyctc.org\/index.html\">shiny server\u00a0of interactive \u201capps\u201d<\/a> are all powered by R.  I hope, will make it easy to use R for PBE analyses you can\u2019t do easily any other way \u2026 but without having to learn R. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dates<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Created 17.viii.23, updated 30.x.26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Used to stand for &#8220;Statistical Package for the Social Sciences&#8221;, 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 Online resources Dates Created 17.viii.23, updated 30.x.26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[18],"doc_tag":[],"glossaries":[],"knowledge_base":[],"class_list":["post-3333","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-om-book"],"year_month":"2026-11","word_count":140,"total_views":"1025","reactions":{"happy":"0","normal":"0","sad":"0"},"author_info":{"name":"chris","author_nicename":"chris","author_url":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/author\/chris\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"All OM book glossary entries","term_url":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/glossary\/non-knowledgebase\/om-book\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"knowledge_base_info":[],"knowledge_base_slug":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/3333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3333"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/3333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5559,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/3333\/revisions\/5559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=3333"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=3333"},{"taxonomy":"glossaries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossaries?post=3333"},{"taxonomy":"knowledge_base","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledge_base?post=3333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}