Creating Event Profiles
Event Profiles are similar in form to Arrival Profiles but, rather than introduce Entities into a model, they define how many Entities are affected by an event within the simulation and when they are affected.
To complete an Event Profile, you need to have defined time intervals for your model as described in step one of To define precise Arrival Profile data. You can use existing time intervals if you have them, or enter new ones on a fresh row.
To create an Event Profile:
- In the first cell of a new row, select Event Profile from the drop-down list.
- In the next cell along, enter a name in the column labelled ‘Profile name’.
- To add a range of statistical noise to your data, specify minimum and maximum levels in each profile’s ‘Noise’ cell, separating them with a comma.
- If you wish to spread your data over the course of the model runtime or over a specific time, enter a value (in seconds) in the cell labelled ‘Spread’. If you need more information about the Spread value, see "A note on 'Spread' values" in Data profiles worksheet .
- Under each relevant time interval, enter the numbers of Entities you would like to be affected by the event associated with this Event Profile.