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Author: Lonnie Chrisman

Lonnie Chrisman

Lonnie Chrisman

Lonnie Chrisman is Lumina's Chief Technical Officer, where he heads engineering and development of Analytica. He has a PhD in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from University of California at Berkeley.

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03/04/2015 | Blogs, Modeling tips & tricks, Open-source models, Videos

Cost effectiveness of installing rooftop solar panels

If you are new to modeling, it can be very helpful to watch someone build a model from start to finish. I created a model to decide whether it would be cost-effective to instal…

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11/14/2014 | Blogs, Decision analysis & multi-criteria, Newsworthy, Water & ocean resources

Max Henrion DAS’s 2014 Best Practice Award

Max was awarded and recognized as an outstanding decision analyst in 2014 in “How to Dispose of California’s Defunct Offshore Oil Platforms”.

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05/31/2013 | Blogs, Data mining, statistics, & AI, Modeling tips & tricks, Risk & uncertainty

Estimation of mutual information

A measure of association is a function that rates the strength of statistical dependence between two variables. In casual talk, people often express this idea by asserting that …

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01/19/2013 | Blogs, Modeling tips & tricks, Open-source models

Displaying indexes in balloon help

In a meeting today, Paul Sanford suggested that it would be nice if Analytica would show the indexes of a variable when you hover over its node. “I know how I can do that right …

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02/02/2012 | Blogs, Decision analysis & multi-criteria

Combination of assessed distributions

Discover how combining assessed distributions can enhance your modeling. Learn techniques to improve accuracy and insights in your analyses.

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01/30/2012 | Blogs, Business & finance, Open-source models

Marginal vs. effective tax rates

Presidential candidate Mitt Romney released his tax returns, and the news channels were abuzz with commentary about his effective federal tax rate of 13.9% on $21.7M of income.

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