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This menu is hierarchical. Each library lists the functions or other constructs it contains. The middle partition lists built-in libraries. At the bottom, are any libraries you have created or added. If you view and select a subitem when editing a definition, it pastes it into the definition.


Menus 5.png Menu item Description
Edit Definition Opens the appropriate view for editing the definition of the selected variable. If the variable is defined as a distribution or sequence, the

Object Finder opens. If it is defined as a table or probability table, its edit table window opens. Otherwise, an Object window or Attribute panel opens, depending on the Edit attributes setting in the Preferences dialog (page 54).

Edit Time Opens the Object window for the Time system variable. See “The Time index” on page 322.
Paste Identifier Opens the Object Finder dialog for examining functions and variable identifiers, entering function parameters, and pasting them into definitions. See “Object Finder dialog” on page 112.
Show Invalid

Variables

Displays a window listing all variables with invalid or missing definitions. See “Invalid variables” on page 355.
Math See “Math functions” on page 145.
Array See Chapter 11, “Arrays and Indexes,” and Chapter 12, “More Array Functions.”
Distribution See Chapter 15, “Probability Distributions.”
Special Displays a list of unusual or less commonly used functions in the Special library.
Statistical See “Statistical functions” on page 296.
Operators Arithmetic, comparison, logical, and conditional operators. See “Operators” on page 142.
System Variables System Variables submenu (see below).
Matrix See “Matrix functions” on page 224.
Text Functions See “Converting number to text” on page 147.
Financial See “Financial functions” on page 239.
Advanced Math See “Converting number to text” on page 147.
Database Appears only in Analytica Enterprise. See “Database functions” on page 410.
Optimizer Appears only if you have the Optimizer activated. See Optimizer Guide for more.
your libraries Lists the names of any libraries that you have defined or added to the model, each with a submenu that lists the functions contained in the library. See Chapter 20, “Building Functions and Libraries.”

System Variables submenu

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AnalyticaEdition The edition of Analytica running, either “Optimizer”, “Enterprise”, “Professional”, “Free 101”, “Power Player”, “Player”, “Trial”, “Lite”, “ADE” or “ADE Optimizer”.
AnalyticaPlatform The operating system/platform. In Analytica for Windows, this is “Windows,” in Analytica for Macintosh, this is “Macintosh,” and in the Analytica Decision Engine this is “ADE.”
AnalyticaVersion An integer encoding the current build number of Analytica being run. In terms of the major release number, minor release number, and sub-minor release number, it is equal to:

''10K*Major + 100*Minor + SubMinor''

For example, Analytica 4.1 subminor version 2 returns the value 40102.

False The logical (Boolean) constant that evaluates numerically to zero.
IssampleEvalMode This is 1 when evaluated in Sample mode, or 0 when evaluated in Mid mode. You can use this in an expression when you need to compute a mid value differently than a probabilistic value.
Null A special system constant, returned by various functions when data does not exist at a requested location, and ignored by array-reducing functions when present in the cells of an array. See “Exception values INF, NAN, and NULL” on page 148.
Pi The ratio of circumference to the diameter of a circle.
Run The index for uncertainty sampling, defined as

Sequence(1, Samplesize).

SampleSize The number of sample iterations for probabilistic simulation. See “Uncertainty Setup dialog” on page 257.
SampleWeighting When this variable to an array indexed by Run, a different weight can be assigned to each probabilistic sample point. See “Importance weighting” on page 291.
SvdIndex The SingularValueDecomp() function returns three matrices, 'U', 'W', and 'V'. To return all three at once, the return value is an array indexed by SvdIndex, which is equal to ['U','W','V'].
Time The index variable identifying the dimension for dynamic simulation (the Dynamic() function). See “The Time index” on page 322.
True The logical (Boolean) constant that evaluates numerically to nonzero.

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