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Product Description: Soundly structured and highly practical, this informative guide introduces users to the concepts, methodologies, and applications of simulation in business, using easy-to-apply Microsoft Excel spreadsheets as the principal means to illustrate simulation modeling concepts, computational issues, and analysis of results...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Provides an introduction to the concepts, methodologies, and applications of simulation in business. Microsoft Excel spreadsheets are used as the principal means to illustrate simulation models and computational issues (although most models can be translated into other spreadsheet formats), allowing both risk analysis and systems simulation approaches to be addressed in a common framework...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)