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. 2015 May 8;3(2):e39. doi: 10.2196/mhealth.3879

Table 5.

Variance components for single-item measures of the diary.

Source of variance
Persona Dayb Person-by-dayc Totald
Start intensity





0-10 NRS 2.495 0.077 1.234 3.806

% overall variance 65.55% 2.03% 32.42% 100.00%
Highest intensity





0-10 NRS 3.076 0.128 1.694 4.899

% overall variance 62.79% 2.62% 34.59% 100.00%
Duration





Difference between starting and ending time (in minutes) 102,960.884 891.587 32,333.475 136,185.946

% overall variance 75.60% 0.65% 23.74% 100.00%
Unpleasantness





0-10 NRS 2.387 0.005 3.627 6.019

% overall variance 39.654% 0.075% 60.27% 100.00%
Amount of sleep





Hours of sleep 0.969 0.007 3.332 4.207

% overall variance 20.64% 0.16% 79.21% 100%
Quality of sleep





0-10 NRS 1.276 0.000 3.486 4.762

% overall variance 26.80% 0% 73.20% 100%
Mood





0-10 NRS 0.955 0.002 3.023 3.980

% overall variance 23.99% 0.06% 75.95 100%

aPerson = variance due to between-person differences across all days.

bDay = variance due to differences between days across all persons.

cPerson-by-day = variance due to between-person differences at different days.

dTotal = sum of all variances.