Using the Simulator

You can quickly learn how to drive the Simulator by taking a look at our Ready-to-Teach simulation, "How many babies...".

Click here to open the simulation. You'll see something like this:

Do the following:

• Enter a value in "number of samples" - e.g. 100
• Click the green "Run" button 

You should now see something like this:

Anatomy of a simulation

The various elements you now see are:

The "run" (i.e. set of samples) you just generated. You can see how many samples were in this run, the date and time it was generated, and under the little i button you will see some descriptive statistics of the samples.

A histogram of the sample value distribution:

A table view of the samples in the run. Only the first 100 samples will be shown, if you generated more than these:

The Create Dataset button. From this button you can make a DataClassroom Dataset out of this run of samples:

The Simulation Model. Here you can see the name of the model, and the fact that it is generating values for a variable (called the Response variable) called Birthweight (g):