Example Models and Libraries - Table

This page lists example models and libraries. You can download them from here or (in some cases) link to a page with more details. Feel free to include and upload your own models and libraries.

Model/Library	Download	Domain	Methods	Description	For more
Model	Marginal abatement home heating.ana	carbon price, energy efficiency, climate policy	graph methods, optimal allocation, budget constraint	Shows how to set up a Marginal Abatement graph in Analytica.	Marginal Abatement Graph
Model	Solar Panel Analysis.ana	renewable energy, photovoltaics, tax credits	net present value, internal rate of return, agile modeling	Explores whether it would it be cost effective to install solar panels on the roof of a house in San Jose, California.	Solar Panel Analysis
Model	Items within budget.ana			Given a set of items, with a priority and a cost for each, selects out the highest priority items that fit within the fixed budget.	Items within Budget function
Model	Grant exclusion.ana	business analysis		Tests a hypothesis about the distribution of an attribute of the marginal rejectee of a grant program, given the relevance of that attribute to award of the grant.	Grant Exclusion Model
Model	Project Priorities 5 0.ana	business models	cost analysis, net present value (NPV), uncertainty analysis	Evaluates a set of R&D projects (including uncertain R&D costs/revenues), uses multiattribute analysis to compare projects & generates the best portfolio given a R&D budget.	Project Planner
Model	Steel and aluminum tariff model.ana			Estimate of the net impact of the 2018 import tariffs on steel and aluminum on the US trade deficit.	Steel and Aluminum import tariff impact on US trade deficit
Model	Tax bracket interpolation 2021.ana			Computes amount of tax due from taxable income for a 2017 US Federal tax return.	Tax bracket interpolation
Model	Feasible Sampler.ana	feasibility		Implements a button that will sample a collection of chance variables, then reset the sample size and keep only those sample points that are "feasible".
Model	Cross-validation example.ana		cross-validation, overfitting, non-linear kernel functions	Fits a non-linear kernel function to the residual error, and uses cross-validation to determine how many kernel functions should be used.	Cross-Validation / Fitting Kernel Functions to Data
Model	Bootstrapping.ana		bootstrapping, sampling error, re-sampling	Bootstrapping; estimates sampling error by resampling the original data.	Statistical Bootstrapping
Model	Kernel Density Estimation.ana		kernel density estimation, kernel density smoothing	Demonstrates a very simple fixed-width kernel density estimator to estimate a "smooth" probability density.	Smooth PDF plots using Kernel Density Estimation
Model	Output and input columns.ana		data analysis	Presents an input table to a user, where one column is populated with computed output data, the other column with checkboxes for the user to select.	Output and Input Columns in Same Table
Model	Platform2018b.ana	offshore platforms, oil and gas, stakeholders, rigs to reefs, decision support	decision analysis, multi-attribute, sensitivity analysis	Determined how to decommission California's 27 offshore oil platforms.	From Controversy to Consensus: California's offshore oil platforms
Model	Comparing retirement account types.ana or Free 101 Compatible Version	401(k), IRA, retirement account, decision analysis, uncertainty	MultiTables, sensitivity analysis	Explores tradeoffs between different retirement account types.	Retirement plan type comparison
Model	Plane catching with UI 2020.ANA		decision theory, decision analysis, uncertainty, Monte Carlo simulation, value of information, EVPI, EVIU	Determines when you should leave home to catch an early morning plane departure.	Plane Catching Decision with Expected Value of Including Uncertainty
Model	Marginal Analysis for Control of SO2 Emissions.ana	environmental engineering	cost-benefit analysis, marginal analysis	Marginal analysis a.k.a. benefit/cost analysis to determine the policy alternative that leads us to the most economically efficient level of cleanup of acid rain from coal-burning electric-generating plants.	Marginal Analysis for Control of SO2 emissions
Model	Donor-Presenter Dashboard.ana		dynamic models, Markov processes	Implements a continuous-time Markov chain in Analytica's discrete-time dynamic simulation environment. It supports immigration to, and emigration from, every node.	Donor/Presenter Dashboard
Model	Photosynthesis Regulation.ana - main regulation pathways Photosystem.ana - rough sketch of genetic regulation	photosynthesis	dynamic models	A model of how photosynthesis is regulated inside a cyanobacteria. Simulates the concentration levels of key transport molecules along the chain.	Regulation of Photosynthesis
Model	Time-series-reindexing.ana		dynamic models, forecasting, time-series re-indexing	Examples of time-series re-indexing.	Time-series re-indexing
Model	Post Compression Model			Calculator for computing the maximum load that can be handled by a Douglas Fir - Larch post of a given size, grade, and composition in a construction setting.	Timber Post Compression Load Capacity
Model	Compression Post Load Capacity.ana		compression analysis	Computes the load that a Douglas-Fir Larch post can support in compression. Works for different timber types and grades and post sizes.	Compression Post Load Calculator
Model	Daylighting analyzer.ana	engineering	cost-benefits analysis	How to analyze lifecycle costs and savings from daylighting options in building design.	Daylighting Options in Building Design
Model	California Power Plants.ana	power plants	edit table, choice menu, pulldown menu, checkbox	Example showing how to use Choice menus and Checkbox inside an Edit table.	California Power Plants
Model	Requires Analytica Optimizer Electrical Transmission.ana	electrical engineering, power generation and transmission		Electrical network model that minimizes total cost of generation and transmission.	Electrical Generation and Transmission
Model	Time of use pricing.ana & MECOLS0620.xlsx (both files needed)	reading from spreadsheets, time-of-use pricing, electricity pricing		Time-of-use pricing is a rate tariff model used by utility companies that changes more during times when demand tends to exceed supply.	Time of Use pricing
Model	Color map.ana		computed cell formatting	A model which highlights Cell Formatting and Computed Cell Formats.	Color Map
Model	World cup.ana			Demonstrates the Poisson distribution to determine why France beat Croatia in 2018.	2018 World Cup Soccer final
Model	resnet18.zip	residual network, deep residual learning, image recognition		Show it an image, and it tries to recognize what it is an image of, classifying it among 1000 possible categories. It uses an 18-layer residual network.	Image recognition
Model	Month to quarter.ana		aggregation, level of detail, days, weeks, months, quarters, years	Shows how to transform an array from a finer-grain index (e.g., Month) onto a coarser index (e.g., Quarter). We generally refer to this as aggregation.	Transforming Dimensions by transform matrix, month to quarter
Model	Convolution.ana		signal analysis, systems analysis	Contains several examples of convolved functions.	Convolution
Model	Dependency Tracker.ana		dependency analysis	This module tracks dependencies through your model, updating the visual appearance of nodes so that you can quickly visualize the paths by which one variable influences another.	Dependency Tracker Module
Model	French-English.ana	multi-lingual models		Maintains a single influence diagram with Title and Description attributes in both English and French.	Multi-lingual Influence Diagram
Model	Parsing XML example.ana	data extraction, xml, DOM parsing		Demonstrates two methods for extracting data: Using a full XML DOM parser, or using regular expressions.	Extracting Data from an XML file
Model	Vector Math.ana		geospatial analysis, GIS, vector analysis	Functions used for computing geospatial coordinates and distances.	Vector Math
Model	Total Allowable w Optimizer.ana or Total Allowable w StepInterp.ana for those without Optimizer		population analysis, dynamic models, optimization analysis	Determines how many fish or animals can be caught (landed) annually so that the probability of the population declining X% in Y years (decline threshold) is less than Z% (risk tolerance).	Total Allowable Harvest
Model	Cereal Formulation1.ana	product formulation, cereal formulation		Cereal formulation/discrete mixed integer model that chooses product formulations to minimize total ingredient costs.	Linearizing a discrete NSP
Model	Neural Network.ana	feed-forward neural networks, non-linear regression	optimization analysis	Models set up to train a 2-layer feedforward sigmoid network to "learn" the concept represented by the data set(s), and then test how well it does across examples not appearing in the training set.	Neural Network
Model	Earthquake expenses.ana		risk analysis, cost analysis	An example of risk analysis with time-dependence and costs shifted over time.	Earthquake Expenses
Model	Best used with Analytica Optimizer Loan policy selection.ana	creditworthiness, credit rating, default risk	risk analysis	Helps a lender decide optimal credit rating threshold to require and what interest rate (above prime) to charge.	Loan Policy Selection
Model	Hubbard_and_Seiersen_cyberrisk.ana	cybersecurity risk	loss exceedance curve, simulation	Simulates loss exceedance curves for a set of cybersecurity events, the likelihood and probabilistic monetary impact of which have been characterized by system experts.	Inherent and Residual Risk Simulation
Model	Media:Red_State_Blue_State_plot.ana	map, states	graphing	Example containing the shape outlines for each of the 50 US states, along with a graph that uses color to depict something that varies by state.	Red or blue state
Model	COVID Model 2020--03-25.ana	covid, covid-19, coronavirus, corona, epidemic		A systems dynamics style SICR model of the COVID-19 outbreak within the state of Colorado.	COVID-19 State Simulator, a Systems Dynamics approach
Model	Corona Markov.ana	covid, covid-19, coronavirus, corona, epidemic, sensitivity analyses		Explores the progression of the COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic in the US, and to explore the effects of different levels of social isolation.	How social isolation impacts COVID-19 spread in the US - A Markov model approach
Model	Modelo Epidemiológoco para el Covid-19 con cuarentena.ana	covid, covid-19, coronavirus, corona, epidemic		Un modelo en cadena de Markov del impacto previsto de la enfermedad coronavirus COVID-19 en el Perú, y del impacto del aislamiento social.	Epidemiological model of COVID-19 for Perú, en español
Model	COVID-19 Triangle Suppression.ana	covid, covid-19, coronavirus, corona, epidemic		Models progression of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US, understanding the amount of time that is required for lock down measures when a suppression strategy is adopted.	A Triangle Suppression model of COVID-19
Model	Simple COVID-19.ana	covid, covid-19, coronavirus, corona, epidemic		Explores possible COVID-19 Coronavirus scenarios from the beginning of March, 2020 through the end of 2020 in the US.	COVID-19 Coronavirus SICR progression for 2020
Model	US COVID-19 Data.ana	covid, covid-19, coronavirus, corona, epidemic, death, infection		Reads in COVID-19 data from the New York Times and transforms it into a form that is convenient to work with in Analytica.	COVID-19 Case and Death data for US states and counties
Model	Voluntary vs mandatory testing.ana	covid, covid-19, coronavirus, corona, epidemic		Computes the rate of infection in scenarios when COVID-19 testing is required/optional,based on prevalence rates, test accuracies and voluntary testing rates.	Mandatory vs Voluntary testing policies
Model	Included with software			Takes typical bond purchase inputs (purchase price, par value, interest rate, and life to maturity) and calculates bond cash flows, current yield, and yield to maturity.	Bond Model
Model	Included with software			Example of a breakeven analysis of a set of revenue levels, when the fixed expenses are set at one amount and the variable expenses are a constant fraction of revenue.	Breakeven Analysis
Model	Included with software			Evaluates and compares the expected commercialization value of multiple proposed R&D projects.	Expected R&D Project Value
Model	Included with software				Financial Statement Templates
Model	Included with software			Explores a market for a new product, and the pricing and advertising budget decisions involved.	Market Model
Model	Included with software			Takes input data for activity paths required to complete a project, and calculates various outputs describing the critical path, timing, and costs for project completion.	Plan_Schedule_ Control
Model	Included with software			Evaluates and prioritizes a portfolio of projects based on either the estimated net present value or a multi-attribute score, based on strategy fit, staff development, the generation of public goodwill, and estimated net revenue.	Project Portfolio Planner
Model	Included with software				Sales Effectiveness
Model	Included with software				Subscriber Pricing
Model	Included with software			Demonstrates the use of a waterfall chart to visualize the components of an earnings stream from an asset.	Waterfall chart
Model	Included with software			Demonstrates how a distribution for an estimated statistic can be obtained by resampling repeatedly.	Bootstrapping
Model	Included with software			Example of scatter plots in Analytica.	Kmeans Clustering
Model	Included with software			Demonstrates the use of Logistic and Probit regression to fit a generalized linear model to breast cancer data.	Logistic regression prior selection
Model	Included with software				Moving Average Example
Model	Included with software				Multidimensional Scaling
Model	Included with software				Principle Components
Model	Included with software				Regression Examples
Model	Included with software			Example of how to decide where to throw a party. Shows how to model a two-branch decision tree in Analytica.	Two Branch Party Tree
Model	Included with software			Uses the beta distribution for the Bayesian update of beliefs about the probability that a coin will come up heads.	Beta Updating
Model	Included with software			Multi-project R&D evaluation models a typical R&D decision problem that might be faced by a biogenetic company.	Biotech R&D Portfolio
Model	Included with software				Diversification Illustration
Model	Included with software				Expected Value of Sampling Information (EVSI)
Model	Included with software				Gibbs Sampling in Bayesian Network
Model	Included with software			Models R&D decision analysis for investment strategy among several choices of powerplants for a low emissions vehicle (LEV).	LEV R&D Strategy
Model	Included with software			Demonstrates a marginal benefit/cost analysis to determine the policy alternative that leads to the most economically efficient level of cleanup.	Marginal Analysis for Control of SO2 Emissions
Model	Included with software			Example of a multi-attribute utility analysis for cars, showing how to analyze an array of cars across an array of attributes, where different drivers assign differing weights to the importance of each attribute.	Multi-attribute Utility Analysis
Model	Included with software				Newton-Raphson Method
Model	Included with software			Uses decision tree terminology to provide an example asymmetric decision tree in Analytica.	Nonsymmetric Tree
Model	Included with software				Party With Forecast
Model	Included with software				Plane catching decision with EVIU
Model	Included with software				Probability of Gaussian Region (Importance Sampling)
Model	Included with software			Calculates the required supply level to maximize profit when the profit function is asymmetric around the average demand value.	Supply and Demand
Model	Included with software				Tornado Diagrams
Model	Included with software			Represents a decision often faced in today’s world: which technology to purchase now, in the face of uncertain future products and prices.	Upgrade Decision
Model	Included with software			Forecasts the population of fish and the establishment of a contagious viral disease within the population over time.	Disease establishment
Model	Included with software			Levels staff efforts over time according to staff available, computing both the work done over time and idle time.	Leveling
Model	Included with software			Demonstrates how to simulate a Markov process using dynamic time. The example estimates the number of hospital patients over time, modeled as a Markov process.	Markov Chain
Model	Included with software				Mass-Spring-Damper
Model	Included with software			Models a mean-reverting price process, along with a trading strategy to "beat the market". It demonstrates the encoding of a Markov Decision Process.	Mean-reversion trading
Model	Included with software				Minimal edit distance
Model	Included with software				Optimal Path Dynamic Programming
Model	Included with software				Parking Space Selection
Model	Included with software				Projectile Motion
Model	Included with software				Tunnel through earth
Model	Included with software			Example of a dynamic variable that calculates growth over time, where Time is defined with unequal time steps. It is an example of exponential or linear growth or decay.	Unequal time steps
Model	Included with software			Curve fits noisy time-sequence data using an adaptive filter.	Adaptive Filter
Model	Included with software			Calculates the expected gain of an antenna looking at two different satellites.	Antenna Gain
Model	Included with software			Computes the load that a Douglas-Fir Large compression post can support.	Compression Post Load Capacity
Model	Included with software			Demonstration showing how to analyze life cycle costs and savings from daylighting options in building design.	Daylight Analyzer
Model	Included with software				Failure Analysis
Model	Included with software				Ideal Gas Law
Model	Included with software				Power dispatch
Model	Included with software				Regular polygon calculator
Model	Included with software				Find Words Game
Model	Included with software				Fractals everywhere
Model	Included with software				Probability assessment
Model	Included with software				Abstracted Subset
Model	Included with software				Assignment from Button
Model	Included with software			Calculates the auto-correlation coefficients of noisy time sequence data.	Autocorrelation
Model	Included with software				Choice and Determtables
Model	Included with software				Correlated Distributions
Model	Included with software				Correlated Normals
Model	Included with software				DBWrite Example
Model	Included with software				Discrete Sampling
Model	Included with software			Demonstrates how to extract a diagonal from a matrix.	Extracting Diagonal
Model	Included with software				Lookup Reindexing
Model	Included with software				Map images from internet
Model	Included with software				Sample Size Input Node
Model	Included with software				Sorting People by Height
Model	Included with software			Creates a subset array out of a larger array based on a decision criterion.	Subset of Array
Model	Included with software			Swaps a computed or one-dimensional table value with its index, thereby making the computed value an index.	Swapping y and x-index
Model	Included with software				Use of MDTable
Model	Included with software				Airline NLP
Model	Included with software				Asset allocation
Model	Included with software				Automobile Production
Model	Included with software				Beer Distribution LP
Model	Included with software				Big Mac Attack
Model	Included with software			Example of capital budgeting for four possible projects, where the objective is to decide which projects to choose in order to maximize the total return.	Capital Investment
Model	Included with software			Diagnosing an infeasible set of linear constraints.	Infeasible
Model	Included with software			Linear program to determine which product variants to produce and how labor should be allocated among the various production steps based on the workers’ skill sets.	Labor production allocation
Model	Included with software			Demonstration of a grouped-integer domain. Fill in a square with the digits 1 through n2 such that the rows and columns all sum to the same value.	Magic Square
Model	Included with software				NLP with Jacobian
Model	Included with software				Optimal can dimensions
Model	Included with software				Optimal Production Allocation
Model	Included with software			Allocate planes to origin/destination legs to maximize gross margin.	Plane allocation LP
Model	Included with software			1-D example illustrating local the problem of local optima.	Polynomial NLP
Model	Included with software				Problems with Local Optima
Model	Included with software				Production Planning LP
Model	Included with software			Example of a quadratically constrained optimization problem with a quadratic objective function.	Quadratic Constraints
Model	Included with software			Demonstrates how an nonlinear programming formulation can be used to solve a non- linear equation.	Solve using NLP
Model	Included with software			Find a solution to a Sudoku puzzle.	Sudoku with Optimizer
Model	Included with software			Find a minimal length tour through a set of cites.	Traveling salesman
Model	Included with software				Two Mines Model
Model	Included with software				Vacation plan with PWL tax
Model	Included with software			Projects cost assessments of damage resulting from large earthquakes over time. It demonstrates risk analysis with time-dependence and costs of events shifted over time.	Earthquake expense risk
Model	Included with software			Compares the value of various policies for restraints on occupants of automobiles.	Seat belt safety
Model	Included with software			Demonstrates risk/benefit analysis, in this case regarding the benefits of reducing the emissions of fictitious air pollutant TXC.	Txc
Model	Included with software				Rent vs Buy Model
Model	Included with software				Rent vs Buy Analysis
Model	Included with software				Car cost
Model	Included with software				Car cost model ch 4
Model	Included with software				Car cost model ch 5
Model	Included with software				Hares sub-module - act I
Model	Included with software				Foxes and hares sub-modules - act II
Model	Included with software				Foxes and hares act III
Model	Included with software			Demonstrate the building blocks for creating and editing variable definitions — expressions, standard operators, and mathematical functions.	Expression Examples
Model	Included with software				Input and Output Nodes
Model	Included with software			Examples in this model demonstrate the basics of working with multidimensional arrays.	Array Examples
Model	Included with software			Examples in this model demonstrate many more of Analytica’s built-in array functions.	Array Function Examples
Model	Included with software				Analyzing Unc & Sens
Model	Included with software				Continuous Distributions
Model	Included with software				Discrete Distributions
Model	Included with software			Dynamic model that finds the downward velocity and position of a dropped object over a six second time period.	Dynamic & Dependencies
Model	Included with software				Dynamic & Uncertainty
Model	Included with software			Simple dynamic model, with one variable that changes over time. This example finds the gasoline price for each of five years, assuming a 5% growth rate.	Dynamic Example 1
Model	Included with software			Slight increase in complexity over Dynamic Example 1. Instead of assuming a fixed inflation rate, this example, looks at the price with three different inflation rates for comparison.	Dynamic Example 2
Model	Included with software			Illustrates a dynamic loop involving simultaneous recurrences over two distinct indexes.	Dynamic on multiple indexes
Model	Included with software				Dynamic on non-Time index
Library	Included with software			Functions that convert between binary, octal, decimal integer and hexadecimal values.	Base conversion library
Library	Included with software				Bayes Function
Library	Included with software				Complex Library
Library	Included with software				Concatenation
Library	Included with software				Data Statistics Library
Library	Included with software				Distribution Densities
Library	Included with software			Contains various functions for defining standard distributions using different sets of parameters.	Distribution Variations
Library	Included with software				Expand Index
Library	Included with software				Financial Library
Library	Included with software			Provides functions for writing data to and from flat files, particularly between two- dimensional tables and comma-separated value (CSV) files.	Flat File Library
Library	Included with software				Garbage Bin Library
Library	Included with software				Generalized Regression
Library	Included with software				Linked List Library
Library	Included with software			Contains functions for creating several multivariate distributions.	Multivariate Distributions Library
Library	Included with software				ODBC-Library
Library	Included with software				Optimization functions
Library	Included with software			See which variables and functions are taking most of the computation time when running your model.	Performance Profiler
Library	Included with software				Structured Optimization Tools