Bayesian Modelling (Car Arrival Problem)
I was sent this question from a reader:
I have a road intersection with one entrance and two exits, A and B. My goal is to estimate the number of cars that pass through this intersection in a given day, which equals to the number of cars that pass through the entrance. I post two people, one at exit A and the other at exit B, to count the number of cars coming out of their exits. They are both not very good so they only capture C percent of the cars that actually pass through their respective exits. I do not know what C is. To make matters worse, the person at exit B lost his record so I only have the numbers from A.
Is is possible to estimate the distribution for "# cars thru entrance" with the data I have? If so, what distributions would you assign to each random variable?
Let's solve it using a Bayesian model!
Learn:
- How to setup a Bayesian model from scratch.
- Building blocks of PyMC 2.2.
- How to interpret the output of Bayesian inference.
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