Contents of User Guide
Analytica User Guide
Introduction: About Analytica
Hardware and software requirements
Normally, usually, and defaults
Typographic conventions in this guide
Examining 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.
Analytica Optimizer Guide
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