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. 2013 Apr 21;10:49. doi: 10.1186/1479-5868-10-49

Table 3.

Optimal steps/day from ROC analysis and Colley et al. thresholdsa for censored and uncensored steps by activity cut point for children and adolescents

 
 
Children
 
 
Freedson 3 METS
Freedson 4 METS
Evenson
  Optimal Colleya Optimal Colleya Optimal Colleya
Censored
 
 
 
 
 
 
Boys 6–11 yrs
6,500
12,000
9,500
12,000
10,500
12,000
 FP/FNb
(0%/6%)
(0%/68%)
(17%/21%)
(0%/59%)
(19%/20%)
(5%/39%)
 Accuracy
.94
.35
.80
.56
.81
.80
 AUC
.99 (.98–1.0)
.91 (.88–.94)
.90 (.87–.93)
Girls 6–11 yrs
6,500
12,000
9,000
12,000
10,500
12,000
 FP/FNb
(0%/15%)
(0%/83%)
(15%/21%)
(1%/74%)
(21%/15%)
(6%/42%)
 Accuracy
.85
.19
.81
.55
.80
.86
 AUC
.88 (.85–.91)
.90 (.88–.93)
.88 (.85–.92)
Uncensored
 
 
 
 
 
 
Boys 6–11 yrs
8,500
12,000
12,000
12,000
13,000
12,000
 FP/FNb
(9%/6%)
(0%/33%)
(20%/21%)
(20%/21%)
(26%/21%)
(43%/9%)
 Accuracy
.94
.68
.79
.79
.76
.72
 AUC
.99 (.97–1.0)
.88 (.85–.92)
.86 (.83–.90)
Girls 6–11 yrs
8,500
12,000
11,500
12,000
13,500
12,000
 FP/FNb
(0%/9%)
(0%/48%)
(24%/19%)
(17%/27%)
(22%/27%)
(42%/11%)
 Accuracy
.91
.53
.79
.77
.77
.65
 AUC
.97 (.95–1.0)
.87 (.84–.90)
.84 (.80–.89)
 
 
Adolescents
 
 
Freedson 3 METS
Freedson 4 METS
Evenson
 
Optimal
Colleya
Optimal
Colleya
Optimal
Colleya
Censored
 
 
 
 
 
 
Boys 12–17 yrs
8,500
12,000
11,500
12,000
10,500
12,000
 FP/FNb
(21%/21%)
(1%/68%)
(11%/14%)
(8%/22%)
(15%/21%)
(3%/34%)
 Accuracy
.79
.61
.88
.90
.83
.90
 AUC
.99 (.97–1.0)
.93 (.91–.96)
.93 (.91–.95)
Girls 12–17 yrs
7,500
12,000
9,000
12,000
9,500
12,000
 FP/FNb
(23%/16%)
(0%/82%)
(18%/19%)
(4%/52%)
(12%/13%)
(2%/41%)
 Accuracy
.79
.78
.82
.95
.88
.95
 AUC
.88 (.86–.91)
.87 (.78–.96)
.93 (.88–.98)
Uncensored
 
 
 
 
 
 
Boys 12–17 yrs
11,000
12,000
14,000
12,000
13,000
12,000
 FP/FNb
(28%/24%)
(16%/38%)
(15%/17%)
(34%/6%)
(21%/19%)
(29%/13%)
 Accuracy
.74
.72
.84
.70
.80
.75
 AUC
.84 (.82–.87)
.91 (.88–.94)
.89 (.87–.92)
Girls 12–17 yrs
10,500
12,000
11,500
12,000
12,000
12,000
 FP/FNb
(24%/24%)
(9%/52%)
(23%/19%)
(19%/24%)
(17%/18%)
(17%/18%)
 Accuracy
.76
.79
.77
.81
.83
.83
 AUC .85 (.81–.88) .84 (.73–.95) .90 (.83–.96)

a Colley et al. thresholds are 12,000 steps/day across gender and age groups.

bFP/FN is false positives and false negatives.

Accuracy = (true positives + true negatives)/(true positives + true negatives + false positives + false negatives).

AUC = area under the curve.