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Norman H. Nie, C. Hadlai (Tex) Hul, and Dale Brent developed SPSS in the late 1960s. The trio were Stanford University graduate students at the time. SPSS was founded in 1968 and incorporated in 1975. SPSS became publicly traded in 1993. Now, IBM owns the rights to SPSS. Originally, developers designed SPSS for mainframe use. In 1984, SPSS introduced SPSS/PC for computers running MS‐DOS, followed by a UNIX release in 1988 and a Macintosh version in 1990. SPSS features an intuitive point‐and‐click interface. This design empowers a broad user base to conduct standard analyses.

SPSS features a wide variety of analytic capabilities including one for regression, classification trees, table creation, exact tests, categorical analysis, trend analysis, conjoint analysis, missing value analysis, map‐based analysis, and complex samples analysis. In addition, SPSS supports numerous stand‐alone products including Amos™ (a structural equation modeling package), SPSS Text Analysis for Surveys™ (a survey analysis package utilizing natural language processing (NLP) methodology), SPSS Data Entry™ (a web‐based data entry package; see Web Based Data Management in Clinical Trials), AnswerTree® (a market segment targeting package), SmartViewer® Web Server™ (a report‐generation and dissemination package), SamplePower® ( sample size calculation package), DecisionTime® and What if?™ (a scenario analysis package for the nonspecialist), SmartViewer® for Windows (a graph/report sharing utility), SPSS WebApp Framework (web‐based analytics package), and the Dimensions Development Library (a data capture library).

SPSS remains popular, especially in scholarly work [4]. For many researchers whom apply standard models, SPSS gets the job done. We see SPSS remaining a useful tool for practitioners across many fields.