posted on 2013-03-22, 05:03authored byRichard P. Mann, Andrea Perna, Daniel Strömbom, Roman Garnett, James E. Herbert-Read, David J. T. Sumpter, Ashley J. W. Ward
The empirical frequency of direction changing as a function of the distance to the nearest opposite facing prawn (grey markers). The empirical data clearly shows the spatially localised interaction with a central peak. The red dashed lines indicate a region of radians, which confines the interaction peak and informs our prior probability distribution on the possible interaction range.