[SOLVED] Statistics on AdvancedTimer

Hi!
Was just wondering if it would be better to open my previous post as a new topic. Would be great to get to understand the Advanced Timer more.

Best, Sarah

Hi Hugo,

I looked into some of the code of the AdvancedTimer.cpp. This is what I found:

json TimerData::createJSONArray(int s,json jsonObject, StepData& data)
{
    double value = 0;
    ctime_t ttotal = stepData[AdvancedTimer::IdStep()].ttotal;

    // Level :
    value = strToDouble(getVal(data.level), 4);
    jsonObject["Level"] = value;

    // Start
    value = strToDouble(getTime(data.tstart, data.numIt), 4);
    jsonObject["Start"] = value;

    // Num
    value = strToDouble(getVal(data.num, (s == 0) ? 1 : nbIter), 4);
    jsonObject["Num"] = value;

    // TMin
    value = strToDouble(getTime(data.tmin), 4);
    jsonObject["Min"] = value;

    // TMax
    value = strToDouble(getTime(data.tmax), 4);
    jsonObject["Max"] = value;

    // Mean
    double mean = (double)data.ttotal / data.num;
    value = strToDouble(getTime((ctime_t)mean), 4);
    jsonObject["Mean"] = value;

    // Dev
    value = strToDouble(getTime((ctime_t)(sqrt((double)data.ttotal2/data.num - mean*mean))), 4);
    jsonObject["Dev"] = value;

    // Total
    value = strToDouble(getTime(data.ttotal, (s == 0) ? 1 : nbIter), 4);
    jsonObject["Total"] = value;

    // Percent
    value = strToDouble(getVal(100.0*data.ttotal / (double) ttotal), 4);
    jsonObject["Percent"] = value;

    return jsonObject;
}

So the Total (ttotal) is right at least, that the mean is the one that takes the num into consideration. It would seem most clear if num represented the number of itteration but it is also remarkable that ‘nbIter’ is a value and that in the folowing part of the code also introduces ‘numIt’. So am a bit confused about if these three values (num, nbIter, numIt) are referring to the same thing? Also I don’t quite understand yet why NUM is different for the different components in the example, as unless it just did multiple itterations of one of the component they should be the same right. And this makes me wonder wheter it is actually referring to the itterations of the simulation as a whole, or to something different.

    class ValData
    {
    public:
        int num, numIt;
        double vmin;
        double vmax;
        double vtotal;
        double vtotal2;
        double vtotalIt;
        int lastIt;
        ValData() : num(0), numIt(0), vmin(0), vmax(0), vtotal(0), vtotal2(0), vtotalIt(0), lastIt(-1) {}
    };

So far I ran my simulation, printing the log at every itteration and with that all my NUM are equal to 1, whilst with that avoiding the problem I don’t think the question has completely been answered yet. The interpretation of the statistics may be a useful question or comment to add in the documentation, in particular for the example placed there, as I think this could help many. Thank you! Hope that this is of use to people in the future.

Best,
Sarah

Hi Hugo and Erik!
Thanks for all the tips, has been helpful. Also it is very cool to see the documentation and other options expand. Yes, I’ll close the topic. I think it has been resolved.

Best,

Sarah