SIMULATION LAB

Session 5: Input Analyzer

Input Analyzer
There are four steps required to use the Input Analyzer to fit a probability distribution to your data for use as
an input to your model:
1. Create a text file containing the data values.
2. Fit one or more distributions to the data.
3. Select which distribution you’d like to use.
4. Copy the expression generated by the Input Analyzer into the appropriate field in
your Arena model.
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1. Create a text file containing

the data values
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2. Fit one or more
distributions to the data.
3. Select which distribution
you’d like to use
4. Copy the expression
generated by the Input
Analyzer into the
appropriate field in
your Arena model.

Of particular interest is the

Corresponding p-value, which
will always fall between 0 and
1.4 To interpret this, larger
p-values indicate better fits.
Corresponding p-values less
than about 0.05 indicate that
the distribution’s not a very
good fit