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Table 5 Prior distributions for model parameters of the DCRWS

From: State-space models reveal bursty movement behaviour of dance event visitors

Parameter

Description

Prior distribution

\(\gamma _{1}\)

Persistence (state 1)

Beta(5,2)

\(\gamma _{2}\)

Persistence (state 2)

Beta(2,5)

\(\theta _{1}\)

Mean turn angle (state 1)

π(2Beta(10,10)−1)

\(\theta _{2}\)

Mean turn angle (state 2)

2Ï€Beta(10,10)

\(\alpha _{1}\)

Switching probability

Uniform(0,1)

\(\alpha _{2}\)

Switching probability

Uniform(0,1)

\(\Phi _{1}\)

Probability of state 1 at t = 1

Uniform(0,1)

\(\Phi _{2}\)

Probability of state 2 at t = 1

Uniform(0,1)

R

Process variance in x- and y-direction

Wishart(Σ,2)