Example MCMU Workflow

Generating a correlated datastream

Consider a datastream generated by the following code snippet:

julia> stream_length = Int(2^24)
16777216

julia> datastream = zeros(Float64, stream_length);

julia> for idx in 1:stream_length
           datastream[idx] = cos( π * idx / 8 ) + (idx % 4) * sin( π * idx / (4 + idx ÷ 16) )
       end

The function above is crazy and meaningless and just something I made up with correlations. Now we are going to analyze it using both a TimeSeries and an AccumulatedSeries.

Initialization

One can initialize both MonteCarloMeasurements using the following pre-allocating constructors:

julia> t_series = TimeSeries("Time Series", stream_length);

julia> a_series = AccumulatedSeries("Accumulated Series", stream_length);

Note, one does not need to specify the stream_length, but then there is no pre-allocated memory. The first argument, a String representing the name of a given MonteCarloMeasurement is optional with the default being empty: "". However, this name can prove helpful as labels in later analysis or for saving the data. We can retrieve it for an arbitrary MonteCarloMeasurement using the name function as:

julia> name(t_series) == "Time Series"
true

julia> name(a_series) == "Accumulated Series"
true

push!ing data into the MonteCarloMeasurements

At this point, we must input the data from the datastream into each measurement. We do this using the push! functionality:

julia> push!(t_series, datastream);

julia> push!(a_series, datastream);

We note that it's also possible to push! single values into MonteCarloMeasurements rather than a whole Vector of values.

Analyzing the datastream

Finally, we are in a position to analyze the datastream collected by either the TimeSeries or the AccumulatedSeries.

To do so, we can either apply a binning_analysis like the following for the TimeSeries:

julia> binning_analysis(t_series)Binning Analysis Result:
    Plateau Present:             true
    Fitted Rx Plateau:           65.94278608460235
    Autocorrelation time τₓ:     32.47139304230117
    Effective Datastream Length: 254420
    Binning Analysis Mean:       -0.0022815233362555834
    Binning Analysis Error:      0.0014031757854593185

Similarly, we can apply it to the AccumulatedSeries:

julia> binning_analysis(a_series)Binning Analysis Result:
    Plateau Present:             true
    Fitted Rx Plateau:           65.94278608460235
    Autocorrelation time τₓ:     32.47139304230117
    Effective Datastream Length: 254420
    Binning Analysis Mean:       -0.0022815233362555834
    Binning Analysis Error:      0.0014031757854593185

Moreover, one can choose to export either MonteCarloMeasurement with the measurement function extended from the Measurements.jl package.

julia> measurement(t_series)
-0.0023 ± 0.0014

julia> measurement(a_series)
-0.0023 ± 0.0014

Importantly, this then provides an interface between this MonteCarloMeasurementUncertainty.jl package and the utilities found in the Measurements.jl package since the return type of measurement is given by

julia> typeof( measurement(t_series) )
Measurements.Measurement{Float64}