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The Art of Modeling with Spreadsheets: Management Science, Spreadsheet Engineering, and Modeling Craft
Stephen G. Powell,
Kenneth R. Baker
ISBN: 978-0-471-20937-9
©2004
432 pages
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Hallmark Features
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- Balanced and streamlined coverage of spreadsheet engineering, management science techniques, and modeling craft.
- The CD-ROM packaged with this text features all of the spreadsheets referred to in the text, as well as three software tools of special importance to business analysts: Premium Solver, Crystal Ball, and Sensitivity Toolkit (featuring four sensitivity tools)
- Helps students develop non-technical, craft skills that expert modelers commonly employ, such as abstracting a situation, debugging a model, and translating model results into managerial insights (Chapter 3 and throughout).
- Presents effective spreadsheet engineering methods for designing, building, and testing spreadsheet models and for performing model-based analyses (Chapters 5 and 6).
- Coverage of sensitivity analysis (Chapter 6, 8, and 9) is supported by specialized add-in software that accompanies the book.
- Concise coverage of optimization (Chapter 8) and simulation (Chapter 9) features a strong spreadsheet orientation and a modeling emphasis.
- Statistics coverage focuses on the most important statistical tools and concepts for the practicing modeler.
- A unique collection of cases and exercises reinforces the more open-ended skills covered by the text.
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