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. 2016 Oct 6;18(10):e268. doi: 10.2196/jmir.5916

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©Frederic Ehrler, Chloé Weber, Christian Lovis. Originally published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (http://www.jmir.org), 06.10.2016.

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Equations for determining footstep length (stepLength; equation 1), and the relationship between speed, cadence, and footstep length (equations 2 and 3). The relative error between the real number of steps (nbRealSteps) and the number of steps registered by the pedometer (nbStepsPedometer) is calculated by equation 4.