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Frontier Analyst® FAQs - Index

This page contains questions that are often asked, or conversations from the user email list that we think are particularly useful for users. If you have a question, or further comment to this information, please email us on info@banxia.com.

General questions

• Where can I get training?
• Can I link to other software?
• The install code doesn't work
• Can I run Frontier Analyst® on Windows 95, 98 and/or Windows NT?
• Can I run Frontier Analyst® on a Mac?

Getting the best from Frontier Analyst®

• How many 'units' do I need?
• Why do I get optimisations on both inputs and outputs?
• What do the Data Export values mean?
• Does Frontier Analyst® Support "Weight restrictions"?
• How does Weighting help my work?
• What is the mathematical model behind weighting?
• How can you discriminate 100% score units?
• What does "greater than 8 orders of magnitude mean"?
• When the program calculates an efficiency, is that based upon a zero origin?
• Do we need to ensure that the polarity of the inputs and outputs is uniform?
• My data has negative numbers - is that okay?

Technical questions

• Can you explain the report designer further please?
• Can I auto-register multiple users?
• The installer stops at 67% installed
• Installer reports "corrupt installation detected"
• Importing data says "A variable named '' already exists"