tpar function

ARGOS Error Fixed Parameters

ARGOS Error Fixed Parameters for Location Classes

tpar()

Returns

A dataframe with columns - lc: ARGOS location class as an ordered factor

• itau2.lon: precision parameters for longitude in degrees

• itau2.lat: precision parameters for latitude in degrees

• nu.lon: df parameters for longitude

• nu.lat: df parameters for latitude

Details

This is an internal function used by dat4jags to specify measurement error parameters.

These are the fixed parameters (t-distribution scale & df) for ARGOS error classes, from Jonsen et al (2005) Ecology 86:2874-2880.