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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jul 10.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Sports Med. 2012 Oct 17;40(12):2731–2736. doi: 10.1177/0363546512461749

Table 1.

Intra-observer and inter-observer reliability for all five lateral tibial slope measurement methods.

Intra-observer Inter-observer

Typical Error ICC Typical Error ICC
Midpoint method, 20 cm ± 0.92° (CI 0.75° - 1.18°) 0.92 ± 0.86° (CI 0.44° - 0.99°) 0.85
Midpoint method, 15 cm ± 1.08° (CI 0.89° - 1.39°) 0.9 ± 0.85° (CI 0.43° - 0.97°) 0.87
Midpoint method, 10 cm ± 1.18° (CI 0.97° - 1.52°) 0.89 ± 1.08° (CI 0.55° - 1.23°) 0.79
Circle method ± 0.84° (CI 0.69° - 1.08°) 0.92 ± 0.75° (CI 0.38° - 0.86°) 0.93
Full tibia method ± 0.64° (CI 0.53° - 0.83°) 0.91 ± 0.89° (CI 0.45° - 1.01°) 0.85

Abbreviations: ICC: Intra-class coefficients; CI: 95% confidence intervals