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This section will give tips and guidelines on how to model with Analytica.
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Most of these pages offer tips and details that go beyond the [[Analytica User Guide]]:
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==== Modeling tips ====
 
* [[Managing Memory and CPU Time for large models]]
 
* [[Managing Memory and CPU Time for large models]]
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* [[Debugging Hints]]
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* [[Tips on model design]]
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* [[Modeling Changes over Time]]
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=== Quick access ===
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* [[Keyboard Shortcuts]]
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* [[Shortcuts for Table Navigation]]
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=== Settings ===
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* [[Preferences]]
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* [[Configuring Personalized Defaults]]
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=== Graphing ===
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* [[Graph setup dialog]]
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* [[Introduction to the Coordinate Index]]
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* [[Graphing a Probability Density]]
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*[[Making a Multi-D Scatter Plot]]
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* [[Tornado Plots]]
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* [[Gantt Charts]]
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* [[Waterfall Charts]]
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* [[Contour/Region Charts]]
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* [[Stacked clustered bar charts]]
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* [[Heat maps]]
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* Substitutes for Tukey-style [[Box Plots]]
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=== End-user interfaces ===
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* [[Buttons|Using Buttons]]
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* [[Inserting Choice Controls in Edit Table Cells]]
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* [[Introduction to SubTables]]
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* [[Description_balloons#Customizing_Balloon_Content|Customizing Balloon Help]]
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* [[Model building by mouse]]
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=== Analytica language ===
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*[[Expression Syntax]]
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* [[User-Defined Functions]]
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* [[Class|Analytica Object Classes]]
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*[[Objects and Values]]
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* [[Analytica Attributes| Analytica Attributes]]
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*[[Using References]]
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* [[Functions by category]]
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* [[:Category:Functions|Functions by wiki category]]
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* [[Alphabetical Function List|Functions and Operators in alphabetical order]]
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* [[Function Parameter Qualifiers]]
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* [[System variables]]
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* [[INF, NAN, Null, and Undefined]]
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* [[For versus Var]]
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* [[Collation Order|Sorting text values]]
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* [[Meta-Inference]]
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=== Intelligent Arrays and Array abstraction ===
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* [[Array Abstraction]]
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* [[Writing Array-Abstractable Definitions]]
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* [[Expressions that don't array-abstract]]
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* [[Array Manipulation Examples and Challenge Problems]]
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* [[Associative vs. Positional Indexing]]
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* [[Self-Indexed Arrays]]
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* [[Implicit Dimensions]] (Lists, null-indexed arrays, unnamed dimensions)
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* [[Local Indexes]]
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* [[Table Splicing]] - edit tables based on computed indexes
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=== User-defined functions and libraries ===
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* [[User-Defined Functions]]
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* [[Creating Libraries]]
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* [[Modules and Libraries]]: Organizing models for collaboration
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=== Integrating with other applications ===
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* [[Excel and Analytica]]
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* [[Integrating with R|Integrating with R stats language]]
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* [[OLE Linking]]
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* [[Retrieving Content From the Web]]
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* [[DbQuery/Step-by-Step_querying_Microsoft_Access|Querying an ODBC data source]]
  
Please list other areas for which you would like tips or guidelines, or add your own:
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=== Uncertainty and probability distributions ===
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* [[Expressing Uncertainty]]
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* [[Mixture distribution]]s
  
* Choosing the Sample Size
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=== Optimizer ===
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*[[DefineOptimization]]
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*[[Formulations that Preserve Linearity for Optimization]]
  
* How to translate Excel spreadsheets into Analytica
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=== Evaluation and caching ===
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* [[Evaluation Modes]]
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* [[Proactive Evaluation]]
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* [[Controlling When Result Are Cached]]
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* [[Save results]]
  
* Dynamic simulation
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=== Scripting and Typescript ===
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* [[Scripting| Button scripts]]
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* [[Scripting Guide]]
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* [[:Category:Typescript Commands|Typescript commands]]
  
* Programs that do things with and to models
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=== Other concepts ===
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* [[Parametric Analysis]]
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* [[Encoding Decision Trees|Decision trees as influence diagrams]]
  
* How to make models transparent and easy to understand
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=== [[:category:Concepts|List of concept pages]]  ===
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Latest revision as of 22:35, 15 November 2023



Most of these pages offer tips and details that go beyond the Analytica User Guide:

Modeling tips

Quick access

Settings

Graphing

End-user interfaces

Analytica language

Intelligent Arrays and Array abstraction

User-defined functions and libraries

Integrating with other applications

Uncertainty and probability distributions

Optimizer

Evaluation and caching

Scripting and Typescript

Other concepts

List of concept pages

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