Practical Spreadsheet Modeling Using @Risk

Chapter 1: Conceptual Maps and Models
1.1Introductory Case: MoviePass
1.2 First Steps: Visualization
1.3 Retirement Planning Example
1.4 Good Practices with Spreadsheet Model Construction
1.5 Errors in Spreadsheet Modeling
1.6 Decision Analysis
1.7Conclusion: Best Practices
Chapter 1 Exercises
Chapter 2: Basic Monte Carlo Simulation in Spreadsheets
2.1 Introductory Case: Retirement Planning
2.2 Risk and Uncertainty
2.3 Scenario Manager
2.4 Monte Carlo Simulation
2.4.1 Generating Random Numbers
2.4.2 Monte Carlo Simulation for MoviePass
2.5 Monte Carlo Simulation Using @Risk
2.6 Monte Carlo Simulation for Retirement Planning
2.7 Presenting Results for Decision Making
2.8 Discrete Event Simulation
Chapter 2 Exercises
Chapter 3: Selecting Distributions
3.1 First Introductory Case: Valuation of a public company using expert opinion
3.2 Modeling Expert Opinion in the Valuation Model
3.3 Second Introductory Case: Value at Risk – fitting distributions to data
3.4 Distribution Fitting for VaR – Parameter and Model Uncertainty
3.4.1 Parameter Uncertainty
3.4.2 Model Uncertainty
3.5 Third Introductory Case: Failure Distributions
3.6 Commonly Used Discrete Distributions
3.7 Commonly Used Continuous Distributions
3.8 A Brief Decision Guide for Selecting Distributions
Chapter 3 Exercises
Chapter 4: Modeling Relationships
4.1 First Example: Drug Development
4.2 Second Example: Collateralized Debt Obligations
4.3 Multiple Correlations Example: Cockpit Failures
4.4 Copulas example: How correlated are home prices?
4.5 Empirical Copulas
4.6 Fifth Example: Advertising Effectiveness
4.7 Regression Modeling
4.8 Simulation within Regression Models
4.9 Multiple Linear Regression Models
4.10 The Envelope Method
4.11 Summary
Chapter 4 Exercises
Chapter 5: Time Series Models
5.1 The Need for Time Series Analysis: A Tale of Two Series
5.2 Introductory Case: Air Travel and September 11
5.3 Analyzing the Air Traffic Data and 9/11
5.4 Second Example: Stock Prices
5.5 Types of Time Series Models
5.6 Third Example: Soybean Prices
5.7 Fourth Example: Home Prices and Multivariate Time Series
Chapter 5 Exercises
Chapter 6: Additional Useful Techniques
6.1 Advanced Sensitivity Analysis
6.2 Stress Testing
6.3 Non-parametric Distributions
6.4 Case: an Insurance Problem
6.5 Frequency and Severity
6.6 The Compound Distribution
6.7 Uncertainty and Variability
6.8 Bayesian Analysis
Chapter 6 Exercises
Chapter 7: Optimization and Decision Making
7.1 Introductory Case: Airline Seat Pricing
7.2 A Simulation Model of the Airline Pricing Problem
7.3 A Simulation Table to Explore Pricing Strategies
7.4 An Optimization Solution to the Airline Pricing Problem
7.5 Optimization with Multiple Decision Variables
7.6 Adding Constraints
7.7 Efficient Frontier
7.8 Stochastic Dominance
7.9 Summary
Chapter 7 Exercises
Appendix: Risk Analysis in Projects