1. Getting Started

TreeAge Pro is a modeling tool that allows you to analyze difficult questions to make better decisions. As a TreeAge Pro user, this section will provide you with important information to get you started.

TreeAge Pro implements the techniques of decision analysis in a visual, intuitive and easy-to-use manner. It transforms decision analysis from a potentially tedious exercise into an easily applied means of:

  1. Organizing the decision making process;

  2. Analyzing the alternative strategies to choose the optimal path; and

  3. Communicating the structure of the problem, the nature of the uncertainties, and the basis for a strategy recommendation.

If you are experienced in decision analysis, you will find TreeAge Pro easy to use following only a cursory review of the software commands, although the richness of the program will become more apparent with further study of the manual.

If you have no, or only limited experience with decision analysis, TreeAge Pro will make it much easier to learn by walking you through some modelling fundamentals and some theory around it. Look to these sections to begin with...