Table 4.

Summary of the variance effects for seven withers height relative velocity ranges on peak vertical force and vertical impulse in the thoracic and pelvic limbs of a clinically normal heterogeneous population of dogs.

Variance factor	Thoracic limb PVF		Thoracic limb VI		Pelvic limb PVF		Pelvic limb VI
	ES	95% CI	ES	95% CI	ES	95% CI	ES	95% CI
Dog	0.5907*	0.5303-0.6138	0.2261*	0.1439-0.2498	0.667*	0.6356-0.7031	0.4947*	0.4240-0.5211
Trial number	0.1616*	0.0684-0.1644	0.0321	0.0-1.0	0.0334	0.0-0.0004	0.0448	0.0-0.0184
0.55 – 0.93	0.0289	0.009-0.0584	0.0009	0.0-0.0112	0.0003	0.0-0.0089	0.0322	0.0109-0.0628
0.6 – 0.9	0.0005	0.0-0.0098	0.0001	0.0-0.0075	0.002	0.30-0.0145	0.012	0.0011-0.0336
0.6 – 0.95	0.0022	0.0-0.015	0.0001	0.0-0.0068	0.0013	0.0-0.0126	0.0044	0.0-0.0201
0.6 – 1.05	0.0007	0.0-0.0104	0.0045	0.0-0.0203	0.001	0.0-0.0115	0.0004	0.0-0.0091
0.7 – 0.93	0.019*	0.0039-0.0445	0.0006	0.0-0.01	0.0006	0.0-0.0102	0.0009	0.0-0.0113
0.73 – 0.95	0.0012	0.0-0.0121	0.0063*	0.0-0.0238	0.0048	0.0-0.0208	0.0031	0.0-0.0171
0.73 – 1.15	0.0132*	0.0015-0.035	0.0027	0.0-0.0163	0.0166*	0.0028-0.0408	0.0078	0.0000-4-0.0265

PVF, peak vertical force; VI, vertical impulse; ES, effect size; CI, confidence interval

^*P < 0.05. The relative velocity ranges are reported as Froude number.