Reliability of accelerometry-based activity monitors: A generalizability study

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1637-1645

  Welk, Gregory J ^a   Schaben, Jodee A ^a   Morrow Jr , James R ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerometer; Actical; Biotrainer; CSA MTI; Physical activity assessment; Tritrac

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETER; ACCELEROMETRY; ADULT; ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; COLLEGE STUDENT; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FUNCTION TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MONITOR; MONITORING; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; RELIABILITY; STANDARDIZATION; TRAINING; TREADMILL EXERCISE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 4444259341     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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