Re: Redefine parameter in Monte Carlo analysis

[Michael Hennebry]

On Tue, 12 Nov 2019, Guidati  Gianfranco wrote:

> I am using GLPK to optimize an energy system model for Switzerland. Lots of 
> parameters such as costs or efficiencies are defined in a dat file. Now I want 
> to systematically vary some of these parameters using a Monte Carlo approach. 
> The easiest way to do this would be to just create a small addendum to the dat 
> file that redefines / overrides the parameter values that were previously 
> defined in the dat file, and to paste these two together. Unfortunately, that 
> doesn't work, the solver just complains that a parameter was already defined.

Include parameters Xnormal and Xadjust along with parameter X.
Read in Xnormal and Xadjust instead of X.
Have X computed from Xnormal and Xadjust.

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