standard deviation of what input

[whatch1]

the function that determines goods availible on a planet or station (cargo import Field, Units.CSV file)

{Cat(string);price(percentage);pricestddev(percentage);quant(percentage);quantstddev(percentage)}

a sample entry
{Consumer_and_Commercial_Goods/Domestic;1.2;.2;4;2}
(this catagory contains according to M.P.L.)
cat P(b) M V Q P
Home_Appliances 100 20 64 ? ?
Home_Furnishings 140 25 75 ? ?
Personal_Transport 1896 69 42 ? ?
Robot_Servants 442 0.1 2 ? ?

What would I get for quantity and real price

Bill

[loki1950]

Not sure but it should be the standard deviation of the price from MPL where the columns are file,catagoryname,price,mass,volume,description so for Home_Appliances 100 20 64

it would be price=100 ,mass=20,volume=64 and the function as you describe it does no calculation it just grabs the values from units.csv and MPL.csv so there is most likely a statement following that does the calculation.

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[whatch1]

This Format determines goods price and availible on a planet or station
(cargo import Field, Units.CSV file)

with this format

{Cat(string);price(percentage);pricestddev(percentage);quant(percentage);quantstddev(percentage)}

a sample entry
{Consumer_and_Commercial_Goods/Domestic;1.2;.2;4;2}

Consumer and Commercial Goods/Domestic as "Cat"
1.2 as price percentage
2 as price stddev percentage
4 as quantity percentage
2 as quantity stddev percentage

Home_Appliances 100 I.S.K. (baseline price M.P.L.)

somehow this determines the price and quantity availible

i never had statistics

[loki1950]

That's ok standard deviation is just a measure of how far from the average(mean) any particular value can be so we have a mean price of 100 from MPL that first gets multiplied by 1.2 to 120 which can then change plus or minus with that standard deviation so there should be an other definition somewhere that defines the function itself it may be in the class definition which may be in the C++ code as Python can both define it's own classes or use existing classes,at least i think it can i really must get on with understanding Objects better.

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