Hi Felix,
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 12:10:13PM +0200, Felix Höfling wrote:
A second scheme would extend the existing value/step/time triple to
include the error and the number:
obs1
+-- count
\-- value
\-- error
\-- count/number/samples ???
\-- step
\-- time
This scheme appears more natural to me and I would prefer it. In
addition, one may add "variance" and "standard_deviation".
I use the above scheme, with the additional "error" and "count" datasets.
There is,
however, a naming clash between the attribute or dataset "count" for
the number of particles and the number of accumulated
values/samples.
Nicolas Höft noted on the halmd-devel mailing list that "count" for
the number of particles is not very descriptive, may we change it to
"size" or "number"?
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.simulation.halmd.devel/292
The whole issue may be beyond the current release candidate. I
mainly would like to hear your opinion at an early stage.
The attribute with the particle number is news to me…
Yes, the choice of "count" is indeed confusing.
We could introduce "particles" or similar instead?