A revised book with 100 different simulations I. GAMBLING 1. THE DIE IS CAST 2. CASTING SIX DICE 3. FREQUENCIES 4. GAMBLING STRATEGY 5. ROULETTE MACHINE 6. GAMBLER’S RUIN 7. RANDOM WALK 8. CRACKING A PASSWORD II. STATISTICS 9. A FAIR COIN 10. THE MEAN OF MEANS 11. SAMPLING 12. THE NORMAL DISTRIBUTION 13. NORMALIZING 14. REPEATS 15. CONFIDENCE MARGINS 16. POWER CURVES 17. HIDDEN PEAKS 18. SAMPLING SIZES 19. QUALITY CONTROL III. GENETICS 20. CHROMOSOMES 21. SEX DETERMINATION 22. RADIATION AND MUTATION 23. MENDEL 24. HARDY-WEINBERG LAW 25. GENETIC DRIFT 26. LETHAL HOMOZYGOTE 27. REDUCED VITALITY 28. TWO SELECTIVE FORCES 29. BALANCED EQUILIBRIUM 30. MOLECULAR CLOCK 31. DNA SEQUENCING IV. FINANCIAL 32. FLUCTUATING APR 33. RISK ANALYSIS 34. MISSING/EXCEEDING TARGETS 35. TWO-DIMENSIONAL FILTERS 36. SCENARIOS 37. MOVING AVERAGES 38. RETURN ON INVESTMENT 39. EMPLOYEE STOCK OPTIONS 40. VALUE AT RISK 41. ASIAN OPTIONS 42. BLACK-SCHOLES MODEL V. EXPANSION 43. OFFSPRING OF TWO RABBITS 44. EXTRAPOLATION 45. PREDATOR-PREY CYCLE 46. HOMEOSTASIS 47. TAKING MEDICATION 48. POPULATION PYRAMID 49. TITRATION 50. EC50 DETERMINATION 51. CONVERTER 52. CONDITIONAL TRAINING 53. EPIDEMICS | VI. MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS 54. HOW RANDOM IS RANDOM 55. BROWNIAN MOTION 56. A TRAFFIC SITUATION 57. UNCERTAINTIES IN SALES 58. EXCHANGE RATE FLUCTUATIONS 59. COST ESTIMATES 60. MARKET GROWTH 61. INTEGRATION W/ MONTE CARLO VII. ITERATIONS 62. CIRCULAR REFERENCES 63. COUNTING NEW HITS 64. CIRCULAR GRADIENTS 65. SINGLE-CELL ARRAYS 66. MULTI-CELL ARRAYS 67. SOLVING EQUATIONS 68. LEAST SQUARES METHOD 69. COMBINING SCENARIOS 70. LOGISTICS VIII. EXTRAS 71. AREA CODE FINDER 72. GRAPH MANIPULATION 73. DETECTING OUTLIERS 74. FALSE POSITIVES 75. PROBABILITY OF BELIEFS 76. UNBIASED SAMPLING 77. NUMBERING RECORDS 78. FISCAL YEAR 79. STOCK MARKET 80. WEATHER FORECAST IX. MISCELLANEA 81. DATA TABLE WITH MEMORY 82. GRAPH MANIPULATION 83. SIMULATION OF A SLOT MACHINE 84. LETTER GAME 85. A HAWK-DOVE SIMULATION 86. FLOCK BEHAVIOR 87. SIMULATION OF SICK CASES 88. EHRENFEST’S URN SIMULATION 89. TWO MONTE CARLO INTEGRATIONS 90. RANDOMNESS IN GENE POOLS 91. RANDOM MATING 92. DIFFERENCES IN FITNESS 93. LOAN SIMULATION 94. STOCK VOLATILITY 95. S&P 500 PERFORMANCE 96. SCENARIO RISKS 97. TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATIONS 98. JUROR SELECTION 99. WAITING TIME SIMULATION 100.PROJECT DELAYS X. APPENDICES 1. LOCKING CELL REFERENCES 2. NESTED FUNCTIONS 3. WHAT-IF TABLES 4. MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS 5. SIMULATION CONTROLS X. INDEX |