Measuring adolescent boys' physical activity: Bout length and the influence of accelerometer epoch length

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Sanders, Taren ^a   Cliff, Dylan P ^b   Lonsdale, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETER; ACCELEROMETRY; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT HEALTH; ARTICLE; BOUT LENGTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPOCH LENGTH; EXERCISE INTENSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEISURE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL EDUCATION; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; SITTING; AMBULATORY MONITORING; MOTOR ACTIVITY; STANDARDS; TIME;

ACCELEROMETRY; ADOLESCENT; HUMANS; LEISURE ACTIVITIES; MALE; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84898651784     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0092040     Document Type: Article

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