National Center for State Courts Selects SPSS

Originally published December 4, 2006

SPSS a provider of predictive analytics software recently announced that the National Center for State Courts (NCSC) has purchased additional SPSS technology to analyze data pertaining to U.S. state courts. The results will then be disseminated to administrative offices of the courts, judicial councils, legislative authorities and court personnel.

The NCSC offers solutions that enhance court operations with the latest technology, collects and interprets the latest data on court operations nationwide, and provides information on proven best practices for improving court operations.

The NCSC has deployed additional SPSS predictive analytics software for its research and court consulting branches. Within these areas of the organization, SPSS is harnessed to examine data on court sentencing, judicial and staff workload, court performance, domestic violence research and general court statistics at the state level.

“Our organization relies heavily on SPSS to perform descriptive and multivariate types of analyses, said Matthew Kleiman, Ph.D., Research Associate at NCSC. These analyses have helped identify and address many of the challenges that face state courts.”

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