Modelling Guide

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

Quick access

• Keyboard Shortcuts
• Shortcuts for Table Navigation

Settings

• Preferences dialog options. Most of these preferences are stored with the model.
• Configuring Personalized Defaults for configuring your own personal preferences.

Analytica language

• Expression Syntax
• User-Defined Functions
• Analytica Object Classes
• Analytica Attributes
• Objects and Values
• Using References
• Functions by category
• Functions by wiki category
• Functions and Operators in alphabetical order
• Function Parameter Qualifiers
• Analytica System Variables
• INF, NAN, Null, and Undefined
• For versus Var
• Sorting text values

End-user interfaces

• Using Buttons
• Inserting Choice Controls in Edit Table Cells
• Introduction to SubTables
• Customizing Balloon Help
• Model building by mouse Enabling modelers to build models by copying nodes and drawing arrows

Intelligent Arrays and Array abstraction

• Array Abstraction
• Writing Array-Abstractable Definitions
• Array Manipulation Examples and Challenge Problems
• Expressions that don't array-abstract
• Associative vs. Positional Indexing
• Self-Indexed Arrays
• Implicit Dimensions (Lists, null-indexed arrays, unnamed dimensions)
• Local Indexes
• Table Splicing - edit tables based on computed indexes

Graphing

• Graph setup dialog
• Introduction to the Coordinate Index
• Graphing a Probability Density
• Making a Multi-D Scatter Plot
• Tornado Plots
• Gantt Charts
• Waterfall Charts
• Contour/Region Charts
• Stacked clustered bar charts
• Heat maps
• Substitutes for Tukey-style Box Plots

Modeling tips

• Managing Memory and CPU Time for large models
• Debugging Hints

User-defined functions and libraries

• User-Defined Functions
• Creating Libraries
• Modules and Libraries : Organizing models and files for collaboration

Integrating with other applications

• Excel and Analytica
• Integrating with R: A Programming Environment for Data Analysis and Graphics
• OLE Linking
• Retrieving Content From the Web
• Querying an ODBC data source

Uncertainty and probability distributions

• Expressing Uncertainty
• Mixture distributions

Optimizer

• DefineOptimization
• Formulations that Preserve Linearity for Optimization

Evaluation and caching

• Evaluation Modes
• Proactive Evaluation
• Controlling When Result Are Cached

Scripting and Typescript

• Button scripts
• Scripting Guide
• Typescript commands

Other concepts

• Modeling Changes over Time
• Parametric Analysis
• Encoding Decision Trees as influence diagrams

List of concept pages