"SPSS is recognized as a leader in the
predictive analytics market space.
Predictive analytics, which combines
advanced analytics and decision optimization,
will continue to be a focus for the organization
as it seeks to increase marketplace understanding
of the business benefits that predictive
analytics provides."
Anyone know what this means?
Nick
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> http://www.spss.com/corpinfo/history.htm
> gives a 1968 start date.
>
> That's 38 years to get it right...
Richard Williams
> > But, the SPSS GUI has to be good because nobody in the world could
> > possibly remember all of SPSS's wildly inconsistent syntax.
> I can't
> > think of any good reason for the inconsistencies; I'm sure it just
> > reflects the fact that different routines were written by different
> > programmers and SPSS, unfortunately, made little effort to
> impose any
> > consistency. Stata, which is at least 10 years younger than SPSS,
> > probably benefited from seeing what other programs had done wrong.
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