SPSS is a statistics package which runs on Windows and Macintoshes. The currently supported versions at the university are versions 19 and 20.
The University has a yearly agreement with with IBM to license SPSS to eligible faculty and GTFs using university owned machines. The agreement is renegotiated every year in December. What this means is that specific copies of SPSS may detect that their license has expired and stop running on January 1. It is prudent to schedule research around the new year to avoid critical data analysis during any gaps between an old license expiring and a new license's agreement.
Students and faculty who wish to install SPSS on personal machines are encouraged to purchase SPSS through http://www.e-academy.com/.
Getting An Authorization Code
In order to install a new copy of SPSS or relicense an old one, you'll first need an authorization code.
Downloading a New Copy of SPSS
If you already have a copy of SPSS on your computer, you can skip this section and go to the License Authorization Wizard section.
If you need a new copy of SPSS, you can select one of the links in the "Software Available for Download" section of http://it.uoregon.edu/software/spss (remember to log into the page in order to see the Software Download section). .
Hint: Copies of SPSS for "Windows X86" are for older 32-bit machines (no, it's not intuitive). Copies of SPSS for "Windows X64" are (more intuitively) for newer 64-bit machines.
Advanced Hint: Occasionally under Windows 7, the SPSS 20 installation software has been known to get confused about the location of CAB files during installation. Instead of installing SPSS, a dialog box appears with a message about being unable to find [a long file directory]/something.CAB. If this happens, write down the full directory name in the dialog box, then cancel the install (the installer will clean up the failed attempt). Create the directory manually. The CAB files typically are in the same directory as the SPSS install program, or in a sub-folder named CABS; copy all the CAB files from the SPSS install directory into the manually created directlry. Re-start the SPSS install program.
The Licensing Authorization Wizard
The Licensing Authorization Wizard is software that talks with IBM and enables SPSS to run on your computer. It should start automatically after a first-install of SPSS. If you're re-licensing a previously installed copy of SPSS, you'll need to start the wizard manually.
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