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Table 1 Details on intrinsic variability of measures for 20 strides and reference imr calculated on long overground walks performed by a sample of healthy young subjects and use for analysis [20]

From: Are gait variability and stability measures influenced by directional changes?

 

Measures

Variability for 20 strides

 

imr

Temporal variability measures

Standard deviation (SD)

 

20-30%

0,10

Coefficient of variation (CV)

 

30-40%

0,10

Inconsistency of variance (IV)

 

> 50%

0,20

Nonstationary index (NI)

 

> 50%

0,24

Poincaré plots

PSD1

20-30%

0,07

 

PSD2

40-50%

0,14

Stability measures

Short-term Lyapunov exponents (sLE)

tot

20-30%

0,26

 

AP

10-20%

0,20

 

ML

10-20%

0,18

 

V

10-20%

0,20

Long-term Lyapunov exponents (lLE)

tot

> 50%

0,29

 

AP

> 50%

0,33

 

ML

> 50%

0,30

 

V

> 50%

0,22

Recurrence quantification analysis (RQA)

rr AP

< 10%

0,01

 

rr ML

< 10%

0,01

 

rr V

< 10%

0,02

 

det AP

10-20%

0,02

 

det ML

10-20%

0,03

 

det V

10-20%

0,01

 

avg AP

10-20%

0,03

 

avg ML

10-20%

0,02

 

avg V

10-20%

0,03

 

max AP

> 50%

0,17

 

max ML

> 50%

0,26

 

max V

> 50%

0,42

 

diverg AP

> 50%

0,27

 

diverg ML

> 50%

0,23

 

diverg V

> 50%

0,54

Multiscale entropy (MSE)

AP τ = 1

10-20%

0,02

 

AP τ = 2

10-20%

0,03

 

AP τ = 3

10-20%

0,03

 

AP τ = 4

10-20%

0,03

 

AP τ = 5

10-20%

0,03

 

AP τ = 6

10-20%

0,03

 

ML τ = 1

10-20%

0,02

 

ML τ = 2

10-20%

0,03

 

ML τ = 3

10-20%

0,03

 

ML τ = 4

10-20%

0,03

 

ML τ = 5

10-20%

0,03

 

ML τ = 6

10-20%

0,03

 

V τ = 1

10-20%

0,03

 

V τ = 2

10-20%

0,03

 

V τ = 3

10-20%

0,03

 

V τ = 4

10-20%

0,04

 

V τ = 5

10-20%

0,03

 

V τ = 6

10-20%

0,04

Harmonic ratio (HR)

AP

20-30%

0,07

 

ML

20-30%

0,06

 

V

20-30%

0,07

Index of harmonicity (IH)

AP

40-50%

0,20

 

ML

30-40%

0,17

 

V

30-40%

0,21