“Analytica was especially suited for this project: The highly probabilistic and uncertain nature of earthquake hazards, building performance and loss estimation makes a purely numerical solution impossible. No global equations can be drawn up to estimate portfolio losses, contributions of risk by individual buildings or optimization strategies. Many variables interact …

"We chose Analytica because we wanted a model that would be transparent, with assumptions obvious to all, and easy to communicate. We liked its graphical user interface. We needed to model the large uncertainties of climate change, so one nice feature was the ease of choosing and using probability distributions.”