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- First, we will need to launch the Run Analysis Wizard again. To do so, you can click the Execute Analysis toolbar button (
). Find the Decision Support category and expand it. Select Building Decision Support Attributes and click Finish.
- Click on the Building Decision Support Attributes icon in the graph to bring up the form page. For Result Name, specify As-built Decision Support Attributes, for Structural Damage, select the structural damage dataset you created previously, for Non-Structural Damage, select the previously created non-structural damage dataset, for Retrofit Cost Estimate, click the Create button and specify something like Building Retrofits for the Result Name field and for the Buildings field, select our building dataset. Click on the Building Decision Support Attributes icon again and scroll down until you find the Population Estimate Type field and specify Crude Population Estimate. This will use a very simple calculation of time of day and square footage of the building to estimate population.
- A few more things to note about this analysis. You can check the Simulate Results box to perform a Monte-Carlo simulation over the specified number of simulations. Also, you can adjust the values specified for the injuries, deaths, and functional loss as well as time of day of the event, the discount rate, the time horizon, etc. All fields you see can be tweaked, but the user should only do this if they feel comfortable tweaking the values.
- After making any final adjustments, click the Execute button to run the analyses.
Analyzing Results
Now that the analyses that we were interested in have been completed, it's time to analyze and try to make sense of the results. There are various ways of viewing and visualizing the results, which we will learn now.
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