Application of functional principal component analysis in race walking: An emerging methodology

Sports Biomechanics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 284-301

  Donà, Giulia ^a   Preatoni, Ezio ^b   Cobelli, Claudio ^a   Rodano, Renato ^b   Harrison, Andrew J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Functional principal component analysis; Kinematics; Kinetics; Movement variability; Sports skills

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; KNEE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPORT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TORQUE; WALKING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SPORTS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TORQUE; WALKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950348000     PISSN: 14763141     EISSN: 17526116     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14763140903414425     Document Type: Article

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