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. 2009 Apr 10;4(4):e5161. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005161

Table 1. Factor Analysis of Sleep-Wake Traits.

Trait Factor 1 Factor 2 Factor 3 Factor 4 Factor 5
Fragmentation REM Sleep State Amount Power Bands Latency
nb Wake −0.82 −0.20 0.03 0.26 −0.04
db Wake 0.77 0.22 −0.31 −0.23 0.09
nb NREM −0.96 −0.07 0.19 −0.02 −0.08
db NREM 0.95 0.13 0.22 0.02 0.09
db TS 0.96 0.08 0.19 0.03 0.10
# Arousals −0.69 0.13 0.27 −0.30 −0.08
# Shifts −0.95 −0.13 0.19 −0.02 −0.09
Onset REM 0.85 0.16 0.33 0.04 0.11
REM min −0.17 −0.91 −0.02 0.08 0.02
% REM/TS −0.14 −0.83 −0.43 0.10 0.05
nb REM −0.21 −0.89 0.05 0.00 −0.21
Inter REM 0.03 0.85 −0.09 0.05 0.19
Wake min 0.06 0.04 −0.98 0.05 0.08
NREM min −0.03 0.12 0.98 −0.06 −0.09
NREM rel Delta 0.03 −0.02 0.01 0.81 0.03
REM rel Theta I 0.14 0.10 0.02 −0.78 0.00
REM rel Theta II −0.07 −0.06 0.07 −0.83 0.02
lat NREM 0.18 −0.07 −0.01 −0.14 0.86
lat REM 0.10 0.18 −0.02 −0.02 0.87
db REM 0.04 0.14 −0.11 0.15 0.39
Proportion of Total Variance Explained 31.4% 16.5% 12.9% 11.2% 9.1%
TOTAL 81.1%

Factor loadings (Statistica, StatSoft, Inc.) of the 20 sleep-wake variables in the 24-hr period are shown with the factor-determining loading values bolded (generally greater than ±0.75). The 5 factors account for 81 percent of the total variance in the data. See Supporting Information for complete trait descriptions, and Supporting Information Table S2 for a 1000× bootstrap-obtained estimate of the 95% confidence intervals of the factor loading values.