About SPSS Course

SPSS Statistics is a software package used for interactive, or batched, statistical analysis. Long produced by SPSS Inc., it was acquired by IBM in 2009. The current versions (2015) are named IBM SPSS Statistics.

The software name originally stood for Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS),reflecting the original market, although the software is now popular in other fields as well, including the health sciences and marketing.