Variables

Variables

Variables can be defined in the calculation section or the process section. They are used as values for parameters in processes, instances and influences.

Constant valued variables

A common constant variable is defined in MUSE as in the example bellow.

<variable name="varname">5.0</variable>

You can even use other object names (processes, variables, influences) in the definition of variables.

<variable name="varname">temp + 5.0</variable>

Variables with distributions

But it is also possible to use distributions as variables as in the following example.

<variable name="varname">
  <distribution>
    <gauss>
      <mu>5.0</mu>
      <sigma>.1</sigma>
    </gauss>
    </distribution>
</variable>

Related topics

• In the calculation section you can also use variation loops to simulate different scenarios in one run.
• See the section about the scope to learn more about the namespace of variables, processes and instances.
• Format of variable names