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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2014 Aug 12;49:299–309. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2014.07.022

Table 3.

Results of decision study reliability estimation for diurnal slope, diurnal (log) mean, and waking slope in Study 1 and Study 2. See Table 1 for description of the designs.

Study 1
Study 2
Slope Mean AUC Slope Mean AUC
Design I. Between subjects at the same occasion of measurement
  Number of days
  3 .30 .63 .53 .32 .67 .36
  7 .50 .80 .72 .53 .83 .57
  10 .59 .85 .79 .61 .87 .65
  14 .67 .89 .84 .69 .91 .73
  21 .75 .92 .88 .77 .94 .80
Design II. Between subjects at different occasions of measurement
  Number of days
  3 .22 .31 .31 .20 .38 .19
  7 .30 .34 .36 .27 .43 .24
  10 .33 .35 .38 .29 .44 .25
  14 .35 .36 .39 .30 .45 .26
  21 .37 .36 .40 .32 .46 .27
Design IV. Within subjects, change across occasions
  Number of days
  3 .36 .74 .60 .47 .68 .58
  7 .57 .87 .78 .68 .83 .76
  10 .65 .90 .83 .75 .88 .82
  14 .72 .93 .87 .81 .91 .86
  21 .80 .95 .91 .86 .94 .91

Note: AUC = area under the curve