What to Calculate and how to Collect Statistics

The Output Menu is where you tell Visualyse which types of data to collect and which specific parameters to write into a log file.

Where the analysis you are performing is dynamic, data is collected in statistical form. At each time step or sample point the output data is recorded in a ‘bin’ of a histogram. Over time the histogram becomes the probability distribution for that data.

Visualyse will not by default record actual values of a parameter at each time step – this would require enormous amounts of memory. We do, however, have a log file option that allows you to select parameters for logging.

This is useful for post-processing and validation – normally the output from Visualyse is statistical information on Link parameters.