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Revision as of 03:23, 14 March 2016
Analytica User Guide
Introduction: About Analytica
If you don’t read manuals Hardware and software requirements Installation and licenses Editions of Analytica Help menu and documentation Normally, usually, and defaults Typographic conventions in this guide User guide Examples folder What’s new?
Examining a Model
To open or exit a model Diagram window Classes of variables and other objects
- Selecting nodes
- Toolbar
- User input nodes and user output nodes
- Object window
- Attribute panel
- Values in Object Window
- Printing
Result Tables and Graphs
- Result window
- Table view of a result
- Graph view of a result
- Uncertainty view of a result
- Comparing results
Parametric analysis of model behavior
Create and edit a model
- Create and save a model
- Create and edit nodes
- Draw arrows
- Draw arrows between modules
- Alias nodes
- To edit an attribute
- Change class of an object
- Preferences dialog
Building Effective Models
Creating Lucid Influence Diagrams
- About influence diagrams
- Guidelines for creating lucid models
- Arranging nodes to make clear diagrams
- Organizing a module hierarchy
- Color in influence diagrams
- Diagram Style dialog
- Node Style dialog
- Taking screenshots of diagrams
Formatting Numbers, Tables, and Graphs
Creating and Editing Definitions
- Creating or editing a definition
- The Expression popup menu
- Expression Assist
- Object Finder dialog
- Definition menu
- The domain of possible values
- Check attribute
Creating Interfaces for End Users
- User interfaces
- User Input nodes
- Choice menu user input
- Checkbox user input
- User output nodes
- User inputs and outputs as aliases
- Onchange attribute
- Button creation
- Form modules
- Icon images in a node
- Graphics, frames, and text in a diagram
- Links or URL in model attributes
- Sharing your model
- Analytica Free 101
- Analytica Cloud Player (ACP)
Using Expressions
- Numbers
- Date and Time Values
- Boolean or truth values
- Text values
- Operators
- IF a THEN b ELSE c
- Function calls and parameters
- Math functions
- Numbers and text
- INF, NAN, and NULL - Exception values
- Warnings
- Datatype functions
Arrays and Indexes
- Intelligent Arrays
- Indexes and arrays: An introduction
- IF a THEN b ELSE c with arrays
- Creating an index
- Functions that create indexes
- To make an edit table
- To edit a table
- Splice a table when computed indexes change
- Subscript and slice of a subarray
- Choice menus and Checkboxes in an edit table
- Shortcuts to navigate and edit a table
More Array Functions
- Array Function Example Variables
- Functions that create arrays
- Array-reducing functions
- Transforming functions
- Relational tables and multiD arrays
- Interpolation functions
- Fourier Transform
- Sets - collections of unique elements
- Other array functions
- DetermTable: Deterministic tables
- Subtable: Editable part of an array
- MultiTable: Combining editable and computed arrays
- Matrix functions
Other Functions
- Text functions
- Date functions
- Advanced math functions
- Complex number functions
- Financial functions
- Financial library functions
- Advanced probability functions
Expressing Uncertainty
- Choosing an appropriate distribution
- Defining a variable as a distribution
- Including a distribution in a definition
- Probabilistic calculation
- Uncertainty Setup dialog
Probability Distributions
- Probability distributions
- Parametric discrete distributions
- Probability density and mass graphs
- The domain attribute and discrete variables
- Custom discrete probabilities
- Parametric continuous distributions
- Custom continuous distributions
- Special probabilistic functions
- Multivariate distributions
- Importance weights
Statistics, Sensitivity, and Uncertainty Analysis
- Statistical functions
- Weighted statistics and w parameter
- Importance analysis
- Sensitivity analysis functions
- Tornado charts
- X-Y plots
- Scatter plots
- Regression analysis
- Uncertainty in regression results
- Logistic regression functions
- Stochastic Information Packets (SIPs)
Dynamic Simulation
- Time index
- Dynamic function
- Time index details
- Dynamic initial values
- Dynamic using arrays
- Dynamic dependencies
- Dynamic and uncertainty
- Dynamic on non-Time Indexes
- Reverse Dynamic
Integration with Excel and other applications
- Using the Standard Copy and Paste Commands
- Using OLE linking
- Read from and write to Excel spreadsheets
- Using the Import and Export Commands
Building Functions and Libraries
Working with Large Models
- Show module hierarchy
- Outline window
- Find variables and other objects
- Manage attributes
- Invalid variables
- Filed modules and libraries
- Import a module or library
- Combining models into an integrated model
- Managing windows
- Memory usage and management
Procedural Programming
- Procedural Programming Example
- Summary of Programming Constructs
- Begin-End for Grouping Expressions
- Local Variables
- For and While Loops
- Recursion
- Local Indexes
- Ensuring Array Abstraction
- References and Data Structures
- Handles to Objects
- Dialog Functions
- Other Procedural Functions
Analytica Enterprise
- Database access
- Database functions
- Read and write text files
- Read data from URL on internet
- Making a browse-only model and hiding definitions
- Huge Arrays
- Performance Profiler library
- RunConsoleProcess - call other applications
- COM Automation Objects
Appendices
- Selecting the Sample Size: What sample size should you use for modeling uncertainties?
- Analytica Specifications: Requirements and specifications, including range and precision of numbers.
- Identifiers Already Used: A list of all identifiers used for system functions, variables, attributes, and control words.
- Error Message Types: Types of error message
- Forward and Backward Compatibility: Compatibility for Analytica releases for running models created with earlier or later releases.
- Bibliography: Books and links for useful background information.
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