Controlling Time Units

Random and Exogenous Variation in the Model

Controlling Time Units

Each of the random variable control panels also shows a Units combo box. See Figure 6.2 for an example. With this you can identify a value for the time units. Then, with the Clock Options window, (see Figure 6.5) accessed by selecting Options $\ra$ Clock Options... from the Simulation window (Figure 6.3), you can assign time units to be used for the simulation clock.

Figure 6.5: The Clock Control Panel

If you select time units for the simulation of seconds and an inter-arrival time distribution for some random variable on a Sampler has time units of minutes, then the simulation will automatically factor in the conversion in the sampling.

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