Alternative

An alternative consists of a period of analysis and a pair of scenarios: one scenario for each analysis year (tracked internally) of a given project condition (tracked by the user). The primary result at the alternative level is average annual equivalent damage.

Average Annual Equivalent Damage

The distribution of average annual equivalent damage is calculated for a user-defined discount rate in the following steps iteratively until convergence:

1. An EAD realization is sampled from the histogram of EADs for each analysis year.
2. EAD is interpolated for each year between the two analysis years and held constant through to the end of the period of analysis to produce a series of EAD.
3. The EAD series is amortized to compute average annual equivalent damage.
4. The average annual equivalent damage realization is added to a ConsequenceDistributiionResult histogram.

Accessing Results

The AnnualizationCompute method returns a ConsequenceDistributionResults object. Examples of accessing Alternative results can be viewed here.