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Microsoft Excel: Using Solver for Decision Analysis

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

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Microsoft Excel Courses Linear Programming Courses Decision Trees Courses Goal Seek Courses

Course Description

Overview

Discover how to use Excel Solver to find optimal solutions to problems that range from simple to complex.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Optimize your analysis in Excel
  • What you should know before starting
1. Working with Solver
  • Find target values using Goal Seek
  • Introduce linear, nonlinear, and evolutionary programming
  • Install the Solver add-in on Windows
  • Organize a worksheet for use in Solver
  • Find a solution using Solver
  • Challenge: Create a Solver model
  • Solution: Create a Solver model
2. Tuning Investment Portfolios
  • Introduce the problem
  • Organize the worksheet
  • Create objective and control formulas
  • Create and run the Solver model
  • Experiment with different constraints
  • Challenge: Tune an investment portfolio
  • Solution: Tune an investment portfolio
3. Optimizing Resource Placement
  • Introduce the problem
  • Organize the worksheet
  • Map store and depot locations
  • Create objective and control formulas
  • Create and run the Solver model
  • Extend the model by adding population density
  • Challenge: Optimize resource placement
  • Solution: Optimize resource placement
4. Defining Decision Trees
  • Introduce the problem
  • Organize the worksheet
  • Calculate the probability of reaching a node
  • Calculate the expected value for the tree
  • Challenge: Define a decision tree
  • Solution: Define a decision tree
Conclusion
  • Additional resources

Taught by

Curt Frye

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