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From: Herbert Seidenberg on 8 Dec 2009 18:58 Excel 2007 Yes, Goal Seek has only one variable, but a workaround is iteration and RMS. Illustrated that by adding two more columns. Graphed it for visualization. Solution has a range of values. http://c0444202.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/12_07_09a.xlsm
From: Kerry on 8 Dec 2009 23:34
On Dec 8, 6:58 pm, Herbert Seidenberg <herbds7-ms...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > Excel 2007 > Yes, Goal Seek has only one variable, > but a workaround is iteration and RMS. > Illustrated that by adding two more columns. > Graphed it for visualization. > Solution has a range of values.http://c0444202.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/12_07_09a.xlsm Thanks, I'll take a look tomorrow afternoon. In the meantime, Ray Koopman over at http://groups.google.com/group/sci.stat.math helped showed me a good sigmoid function that allows me to keep my data as continuous but get values to reach very close to 0 and 1 depending on what side of the thresholds they're on. Excel Solver is still fussy about this since it is highly non-linear but it at least gave me a more optimized value than I had eyeballed. That said, I look forward to going over your suggestion to possibly getting something easier on Solver since I have to change these data values iteratively (i.e. after each Solver optimization). Thanks again, K |