What is Option Impacts Analysis?
What are the program's capabilities?
What are the system requirements?
Licensing for Option Impacts Analysis
What files come with Option Impacts Analysis?
How do I install, learn about, and run Option Impacts Analysis?
If I have any problems with the program what can I do?
Option Impacts Analysis focuses on cross-impacts
amongst comparative evaluations within a selection set.
It applies when you want to determine the comparative
preference structure and preference flows i.e. from which other options each
option immediately draws its share.
With two options their cross-impacts on share are obvious and direct. If one option is eliminated then the other has 100% monopoly of choice. With three or more options the cross-impacts amongst options are more complicated and worthy of closer analysis.
Analysis of the
cross-impacts of comparative evaluations involves appraisals of options
indicating,
directly or indirectly, their selectability. Relevant appraisals include
ratings, rankings, or probabilities, or selection identifications. These are
analysed by the program.
Note:
Option Impacts Analysis is limited to analysis of
selection shares. If your data consists of ratings you may also be interested
in cross-impacts on inter-option appeal in terms of changes in advantage and
disadvantage. This procedure is contained in the
Suitable input for
analysis involves survey-type data with options and other variables in columns
and cases in rows. (See ReformattingData.xls for preparing suitable input data
if it is not readily available.)
The program is able
to analyse 3 to 30 options and more than 60,000 cases in a single program run.
Option evaluation data
may be boolean, dichotomous, complete or partial ratings or rankings, or
selection probabilities.
Alternative methods
are available for handling selection ties.
Missing values,
option labels and input weights for obtaining weighted results can be included.
More than 200
supplementary variables can be associated with any single analysis. These
variables are useful for filtering for sub-group analysis.
Some example data and
Option Impacts Analysis output are included in the file ExampleAnalyses.xls.
You need to have
Windows and
Microsoft Excel97 or later.
Option Impacts
Analysis Version 0.5 beta is freeware. However, by using, copying,
transmitting, distributing or installing the Option Impacts Analysis software
you agree to all of the terms of the Option Impacts Analysis
If you disagree with
any of the terms of this License, then do not use, copy, transmit, distribute,
or install this software.
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ReadmeFirst_OIA.htm
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This file.
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Option Impacts Analysis.xla
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Excel program execution file.
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OIA Help.hlp
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Help file
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OIA Example Analysis.xls
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Provides some examples of Option Impacts
Analysis.
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OIA Example Samples.xls
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Example samples which are used for example
analyses.
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OIA Reformatting Data.xls
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Shows how data with an unsuitable layout
can be put into the appropriate input format using Excel.
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To run Option Impacts Analysis:
1.
Double-click the Option Impacts Analysis.xla
file to install the program and open Excel.
2.
Open your input data file in Excel. (To test
you can use the ExampleAnalysis.xls file.)
3.
Go to the Excel Tools menu and select Option
Impacts Analysis Analysis.
4.
Alternatively, you can install Option Impacts
Analysis as an Excel Add-in to make Option Impacts Analysis available whenever
you start Excel.
To learn about Option Impacts Analysis:
1.
Run the OIA Help.hlp file by double clicking it
or by pressing the Help button in the Option Impacts Analysis program dialog.
This introduces OIA and describes the input data requirements, the varieties of
analysis available, and output options.
2.
Review
the examples contained in OIA Analysis Examples.xls.
To use Option Impacts Analysis:
1.
If you wish to analyse data then you should
have your data present on a spreadsheet before starting Option Impacts Analysis.
(For testing, load ExampleAnalysis.xls.)
2.
To run, simply pull down the Tools menu, select
Option Impacts Analysis and execute the dialog.
3.
Click the Help button with the mouse or F1. If
Excel says it cannot find the help file, use the browse button to go to your
Option Impacts Analysis folder and double-click OIA Help.hlp. (This is only
necessary the first time to ensure that help will be available when you need
it.)
4.
To select an input data range click on the
selection button at the right-hand end of the Analysis Data Range input box. Go
to ExampleAnalysis.xls, for example, and select a data range then press on the
selection button again to return to the dialog.
5.
Continue with other dialog entries…
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This license applies
only to Option Impacts Analysis Version 0.5 beta.
By using, copying,
transmitting, distributing or installing Option Impacts Analysis you
agree to all of the terms of this license. If you disagree with any of the
terms of this License, then do not use, copy, transmit, distribute, or
install Option Impacts Analysis.
This software is
freeware. Subject to the terms of this license, you are licensed by Corporate
Research and Development Limited (“Corporate R & D”) to use this software
without charge.
Without making any
payment to Corporate R & D you may give or transmit to anyone an exact copy
of all the material included in the download package for this version of
Option Impacts Analysis. You may not rent out or resell this software for
profit.
This Option
Impacts Analysis software is licensed "as is" without any warranty of
merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, performance, or otherwise.
By using this software, you agree that neither Corporate R & D nor anyone
else who has been involved in the creation, production, or delivery of this
software
shall be liable to you or any third party for any use of (or inability to use)
or performance of this product or for any indirect, consequential, or
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even if we are notified of such possibility in advance. This agreement shall be
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The user must assume
the entire risk of using the software. This is an essential part of the
agreement.
All rights of any
kind in Option Impacts Analysis which are not expressly granted in this
license are entirely and exclusively reserved to and by Corporate R & D.
You may not change, modify, translate, or convert to another programming
language, decompile, reverse engineer, or disassemble the software for any
purpose,
or create derivative works based on Option Impacts Analysis.
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Corporate R & D Limited, 50 Kapanui Road, Waikanae, Kapiti Coast, New
Zealand. All rights reserved.