Fig. 6
From: Incorporating periodic variability in hidden Markov models for animal movement
Comparison of step length distribution parameters for BIC-optimal HMMs (homogeneous and sinusoidal) for four panthers. Homogeneous and heterogeneous models agree qualitatively on long-step-length state parameters; homogeneous models subdivide short-step-length states into an additional category. Mean (x-axis) and standard deviation (y-axis) of step length by state (log-Normal parameters, units of log10m) for BIC-optimal homogeneous HMMs (red line) and heterogeneous HMMs with sinusoidal transition (blue line). Dashed circles highlight comparable sets of short-step-length movement states