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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 15.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Biomed Eng. 2013 Jul 18;41(12):2474–2487. doi: 10.1007/s10439-013-0861-z

TABLE 2.

Risk Weighted Cumulative Exposure (RWE) equations, where aL is the measured peak linear acceleration, aR is the measured peak rotational acceleration, and nhits is the number of head impacts in a season for a given player.

Risk function(s) Equation
Pellman, Linear
RWEPellman,Linear=i=1nhitsR(aL)i
Rotational
RWERotational=i=1nhitsR(aR)i
Combined Probability
RWECP=i=1nhitsCP(aL,aR)i
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