Decision
Tree Package
The Lumenaut Decision
Tree package provides a range of tools
that enable the user to easily and quickly
build decision tree models for many
real life situations natively in Excel.
The user can quickly model real life
decision processes in Excel and select
the decision path that produces either
the highest or lowest outcome. By making
better informed decisions, companies
can select the optimum path for their
business.
The Lumenaut Decision
Tree Analysis package is used in many
industries from Oil & Gas, Automotive,
Pharmaceutical& Chemical, Health
Care, Energy, Mining, to name but a
few, to help make more analytically
driven decisions.
Introduction to Lumenaut Decision
Tree Analysis
Most decision processes in business,
engineering and science can be modeled
using the Lumenaut Decision Tree Analysis
Package, the tree below represents a
simple model to decide whether to drill
for oil or not. The key variables are
drilling costs ($-125,000), expected
probability of striking oil (10%) and
value of strike ($1,670,000). In this
model, the decision is to drill for
oil.

But what about the sensitivity of the
input variables? A One-Way and Two-Way
sensitivity analysis can be carried
out on individual model variables to
identify change points in the model,
the tables and chat below indicates
the result of a two way analysis on
Drilling Costs and Probability of Striking
Oil.
Tornado
charts shows the percentage change in
the payout or Expected Monetary Value
(EMV) for each variable in the sensitivity
analysis and the Spider Charts shows
the relationship between the percentage
change in the variables and the final
payout - opposite.

The The risk profile
and cumulative risk profile for the
tree is given opposite, note only
two payout's one at 90% probability
and the other at 10% probability.
Additional functions are available such
as Exponential Utility which
are used to translate actual values into
a measurement of utility to the decision
maker. Net present value (NPV)
enable tree decisions to be made in today's
dollars taking into account the cost of
capital over the entire time period the
decision tree covers.
A very useful introductory tutorial to
decision trees is available here html/pdf