Overview of Final Value Results

Because Final Value results are so flexible and can produce a very wide range of different charts and tables, before describing how to actually create and specify the form of these results in detail, it is first worthwhile to briefly provide an overview of the kinds of results that can be displayed.

Final Value results are used to carry out side-by-side comparisons of the final values of outputs for different types of simulations. In order to use them, you need to carefully specify what you wish to compare and how you want to display that comparison. Depending on how your model has been run (e.g., multiple realizations, multiple scenarios, multiple Capture Times User-defined points in time during a simulation at which “Final Value” results are captured for result display. The final time point in the simulation is always included as a Capture Time, but additional times can be added.) and the outputs you have specified to compare (e.g., one output, multiple outputs, vector A one-dimensional array. results, matrix A two-dimensional array. results), they result displays can have multiple "dimensions" and there can be a large variety of ways to display the comparison. In the topics below, examples of the types of displays that can be created are provided: