SPSS | Research IT Core Services

SPSS

Description

SPSS is a statistical analysis package.

Availability and costs

Cincinnati Children's faculty/staff are NOT eligible to use SPSS licenses obtained from the University of Cincinnati. In addition, SPSS does not offer Cincinnati Children's users an educational discount. Therefore the cost of the license is quite high.

If you are interested in using SPSS, please call the sales department of the IBM at 800-543-2185 to get a quote customized to your needs.

Important note

Once you receive your copy of SPSS, please safeguard the CD / registration number. You will need this for reinstallation / and help with troubleshooting.

Help

Full access technical support is available to users who have taken advantage of the various maintenance contracts available from SPSS. To access support please go to: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/analytics/spss/resources.html

More information

http://www.spss.com

Need Help?

For technical assistance with other research software, email software@bmi.cchmc.org. For basic desktop support or assistance with clinical information systems, call the Cincinnati Children's Service Desk, 513-636-4100, or visit the Information Services CenterLink site. UC employees should call the UCit Help Desk, 513-556-HELP.

A note about UCit software

UC researchers are served with desktop software by UCIT. In many cases this software is licensed specifically to UC employees only (i.e., people who receive paychecks from UC) or must be run on UC-owned or controlled equipment, making it inaccessible to Cincinnati Children's personnel. Please make sure you read the license agreement carefully before you use UC software.

Faculty and students of UC are eligible to purchase software from UC. However, when purchasing from UC, the license agreement states that the software can be installed only on your personally owned or UC-owned computer and not on machines owned by other institutions. Since Children’s Hospital is a separate entity from UC, installing software purchased from UC on CCHMC owned computers is a violation of that license agreement. There is a difference in the price of software purchased from Biomedical Informatics at Children’s Hospital versus from the UC Bookstore. This difference is because UC qualifies for the educational discount whereas Children’s Hospital does not. Although Cincinnati Children’s Hospital is affiliated with UC, we are not a degree granting institution. We are a hospital, therefore we only qualify for the healthcare/non-profit discount.