Funciones De Crystal Ball

Crystal Ball Funcfions some crystat Batt functionscan be useclclirectryfi.omwithin Excel. Source: Developer for Crystal Kit Ball2000 andCB Predictor, Decisioneering 1999. Inc., Sometimes it usefultoembed is somefrrnctions directlyinto a worksheet; example, for to automatically extract summalystatistics and/orpercentiles from a simulation. These be can specinllyformatted a user.who doesnot havetoknow anything for nboutthe CB interface. All of thesefunctions (andothers)canbe accessed from the functionwizard in Excel,or typedin likc any otherExcelfunction(of course, CB add-inmustbeloadedfirst). In t r* function the wizard, the CB functions in the"CrystalBall" category. are

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