Using Python with SPSS

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by Lucy Fike

We know that using SPSS syntax is an easy way to organize analyses so that you can rerun them in the future without having to go through the menu commands.

Using Python with SPSS makes it much easier to do complicated programming, or even basic programming, that would be difficult to do using SPSS syntax alone. You can use scripting programming in Python to create programs that execute automatically. [click to continue…]

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