When I was in high school, we used to plot points on graph paper and then try to fit a curve with some plastic templates named in undoubtedly sexist terms as French Curves. There was also a flexible ...

An Excel workbook called DemandCurve.xls provides a simple example of how to use Solver and the Comparative Statics Wizard to set up a standard consumer theory optimization problem and then derive a ...

In Part 1 of this blog, we looked at the way that Excel can help generate an equation that describes a curve based on collected data. Then, that curve can be linearized. We left off noting that the ...