what is spss software

SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) is a statistical software suite developed by IBM for data management, advanced analytics, multivariate analysis, business intelligence, and criminal investigation. It was originally created in 1968 by SPSS Inc. and was later acquired by IBM in 2009. SPSS is widely used in social science research, but its use has since expanded into other data markets such as healthcare, marketing, and education research. The software supports spreadsheets, plain text files, and relational databases such as SQL, SATA, and SAS. It provides data analysis for descriptive and bivariate statistics, numeral outcome predictions, and predictions for identifying groups. SPSS also offers data transformation, graphing, and direct marketing features. The software has a user-friendly interface and a robust set of features that allow organizations to quickly extract actionable insights from their data. It is used by market researchers, health researchers, survey companies, government entities, education researchers, marketing organizations, data miners, and many more for processing and analyzing survey data.