Chapter 4. Understanding the Analyst Environment

This chapter discusses the Analyst environment. Here we introduce you to the Analyst interface and discuss the various menus and toolbars that you need to know to work with the program. We show you how to access objects and navigate around the interface. We touch briefly on the various Analyst objects, and discuss the ways that you can organize the objects by using libraries. Finally, we cover some of the important administrative functions that enable you to validate your model and check for errors.

Getting familiar with Analyst

Analyst uses a Graphical User Interface(GUI) to allow you to access objects, enter data, and execute commands. There are three parts to the interface: menu toolbar, icon ...

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