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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Jun 9.
Published in final edited form as: Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2004 Jul;36(7):1259–1266.

TABLE 5.

Choosing the threshold for moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity by examining the false positives and false negatives based for approach 3 (slow and brisk walking)

Accelerometer (counts·30 s-1) True Positive (N) True Negative (N) False Positive (N)* False Negative (N)** Error Rate (%) Validation Error Rate (%)*** (5th, 95th Percentile)
1100 29 73 43 0 29.7 21.7,37.4
1150 32 73 40 0 27.6 19.8,34.9
1200 42 72 30 1 21.4 14.2,28.2
1250 49 72 23 1 16.6 9.6,22.0
1300 53 72 19 1 13.8 7.9,19.8
1350 58 72 14 1 10.3 6.0,16.7
1400 59 72 13 1 9.7 5.6,13.9
1450 64 71 8 2 6.9 3.5,11.5
1500 66 70 6 3 6.2 2.5, 9.4
1550 67 65 5 8 9.0 4.0,13.8
1600 69 65 3 8 7.6 2.7,12.5
*

Counts measured under the protocol for slow walk that were above the threshold for moderate intensity activity were considered as false positive.

**

Counts measured under the protocol for brisk walk that were below the threshold for moderate intensity activity were considered as false negative.

***

Based on 100 bootstrap samples, each half the size as the original sample.