SPSS

SPSS and AMOS are now available to faculty and staff for teaching and learning and academic research only.

 

SPSS is available in all UIT Student Public Computing Labs across campus and in Remote Labs 

 

IBM® SPSS® Statistics is a powerful statistical software platform. It delivers a robust set of features that lets your organization extract actionable insights from its data.

IBM Usage Guidance:

"Licensee may only use the Program(s) listed below for teaching and non-commercial academic research...Non-commercial academic research means research ...where (i) the results of such research are not intended primarily for the benefit of a third party; (ii) such results are made available to anyone without restriction on use, copying or further distribution; and (iii) any copy of any such result is furnished for no more than the cost of hosting, reproduction, and shipping. Any other use including but not limited to university administration and operations is strictly prohibited under the terms....


If your use case does not apply to the above guidance, you can request to purchase SPSS using the Software Purchasing guidance here. 

With SPSS Statistics you can:

  • Analyze and better understand your data, and solve complex business and research problems through a user friendly interface.
  • Understand large and complex data sets quickly with advanced statistical procedures that help ensure high accuracy and quality decision making.
  • Use extensions, Python and R programming language code to integrate with open source software.
  • Select and manage your software easily, with flexible deployment options.

SPSS Statistics is available for Microsoft Windows and the Mac operating system. Cost for this software is paid through the MSU IBM contract.

Amos

  • IBM® SPSS® Amos is a powerful structural equation modeling (SEM) software helping support your research and theories by extending standard multivariate analysis methods, including regression, factor analysis, correlation and analysis of variance.
  • SPSS Amos is only available for Windows systems
  • More information can on Amos can be found here.

SPSS Download and Install

  1. For MSU owned computers, you will need to use MakeMeAdmin, to install SPSS on your computer.
    1. More information in MakeMeAdmin can be found here:
  2. After the MakeMeAdmin process is complete...
  3. Go to https://www.montana.edu/software.
    1. Locate IBM - SPSS. 
  4. Click the box next to "I accept Software Terms of Use".
  5. Versions
    1. The version of the key and the version of the installer/ client must be the same. 
  6. License Key 
    1. Software Authorization Key will be found in the Software Portal as a text file separate from the software downloads
    2. License keys are OS agnostic and will work on either Windows of Mac. 
  7. Installer / Client
    1. Click the link for the applicable Operating System you are using.
      1. The Windows 10 64-bit, will be the installer used for Windows 11 systems.
  8. Please check System Requirements as this software takes up at least 1GB of space. System Requirements can be found here: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/release-notes-ibm%C2%AE-spss%C2%AE-statistics-260

Amos Download and Install

  1. Go to https://www.montana.edu/software.
    Locate IBM - SPSS. 
  2. Click box next to "I accept Software Terms of Use".
  3. Versions
    1. The version of the key and the version of the installer/.exe must be the same. 
  4. License Key 
    1. There is a separate license key for AMOS, different than the one used for the SPSS install.
  5. Installer / Client
    1. SPSS Amos is only available for Windows systems.


Help with SPSS usability can be found here: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLVMB_26.0.0/statistics_kc_ddita/spss/product_landing.html