Comparing Analytica and DPL for financial modeling
Tuesday, 02 September 2008
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Input styles.
DPL enables a visual input of each leaf node value (see image below).

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Analytica uses tables (see image below) Anlytica enables the use of intelligent arrays similar to some features of parrallel programming - a node can inherit dimensions of its input nodes.

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Both Analytica and DPL enable Monticarlo simulation.  

The image below are the results presented in DPL as a decision tree with expected value of 53.

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The image below are the results presented in Analytica. Here instead of expected value, the Mean is shown with value of 52.40. This is a result of the default sample size of 200. If this sample is set to 3000 or larger, the means approaches 53.

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