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Academic research

Analytica is used for teaching and research in many leading universities across the world. Professors find it an ideal tool for students to learn the science and art of building effective decision models with. Its visual influence diagrams encourage students to conceptualize complex problems in the same way an expert modeler would, without getting bogged down in the detail of cell formulas. Its Intelligent Arrays help new modelers start out with a simple model and then add detail as needed.

We offer Analytica at about half-price for funded research for students and faculty

Students & faculty

Analytica is used in research and teaching of quantitative modeling and decision analysis in leading universities around the world. Learn about our discounted rates.

Publications using Analytica

Explore the power of the Analytica software and how it has been utilized in diverse fields through various journal articles and publications.

US gas leaks much larger than previously estimated

A new Stanford-led study on natural gas leak rates from oil and gas activity across a large fraction of the US are about 3x more than previous government estimates. The…

Social influences in modeling energy decarbonization

Discover how blending social dynamics with energy models revolutionizes climate policy, offering sustainable, culturally-informed solutions.

Converting greenhouse gases into fish food

Methanotrophic bacteria may be able to both replace fishmeal and provide incentivize to capture potent greenhouse gases that are directly emitted into the atmosphere.

Book review: decision making under uncertainty

This just-released Spanish-language textbook from Professor Jorge E Muro Arbulú has now taken its spot as my favorite textbook on …

Could humans lose control over advanced AI?

Researchers used Analytica's influence diagrams to map out arguments and scenarios exploring risks with artificial intelligence (AI).

Is farmed salmon safe?

By comparing the risks and health benefits of farmed salmon, Finnish analysts show that eating farmed salmon is much healthier than eating beef and other animal proteins.

Some Analytica customers

Download the free edition of Analytica

The free edition of Analytica includes these key Analytica features: 

Free Analytica has no time limit. The only constraint is it won’t let you create more than 100 variables or other objects. But your model can be quite substantial since each variable can be a multidimensional array.  It also lets you explore, change inputs, and run existing models of any size (excluding features unique to the Enterprise or Optimizer editions).

Analytica runs on any Windows computer, or on a Macintosh using Parallels or VMWare.


    Analytica Cubes Pattern

    Download the free edition of Analytica

    The free edition of Analytica includes these key Analytica features: 

    Free Analytica has no time limit. The only constraint is it won’t let you create more than 100 variables or other objects. But your model can be quite substantial since each variable can be a multidimensional array.  It also lets you explore, change inputs, and run existing models of any size (excluding features unique to the Enterprise or Optimizer editions).

    Analytica runs on any Windows computer, or on a Macintosh using Parallels or VMWare.


      Analytica Cubes Pattern