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Introduction -- Modeling in a problem-solving framework -- Spreadsheet engineering -- Analysis using spreadsheets -- Data exploration and preparation -- Classification and prediction methods -- Short-term forecasting -- Nonlinear optimization -- Linear optimization -- Optimization of network...

Introduction -- Descriptive Statistics -- Data Visualization -- Descriptive Data Mining -- Probability: An Introduction to Modeling Uncertainty -- Statistical Inference -- Linear Regression -- Time Series Analysis and Forecasting -- Predictive Data Mining -- Spreadsheet Models -- Monte Carlo...

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