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. 2017 May 22;14:43. doi: 10.1186/s12984-017-0251-0

Table 4.

Descriptive statistics for instrumented standing balance results including ICCs and 95% confidence intervals

Healthy controls Persons with multiple sclerosis
Day 1 Mean (StD) Day 2 Mean (StD) ICC 95% CI bounds Day 1 Mean (StD) Day 2 Mean (StD) ICC 95% CI bounds
ρ Lower Upper ρ Lower Upper
Jerk 0.096 (0.042) 0.084 (0.045) 0.880 0.642 0.960 0.105 (0.065) 0.126 (0.110) 0.858 0.578 0.952
Distance 0.058 (0.021) 0.055 (0.014) 0.788 0.368 0.929 0.067 (0.022) 0.070 (0.034) 0.919 0.759 0.973
Area 0.003 (0.001) 0.003 (0.001) 0.832 0.500 0.944 0.004 (0.002) 0.004 (0.004) 0.891 0.675 0.963
RMS 0.071 (0.025) 0.065 (0.017) 0.790 0.375 0.929 0.078 (0.024) 0.083 (0.039) 0.895 0.687 0.965
Path length 4.893 (0.953) 4.769 (1.255) 0.895 0.687 0.965 5.516 (1.631) 5.543 (1.936) 0.884 0.655 0.961
Range 0.369 (0.101) 0.345 (0.104) 0.731 0.200 0.910 0.384 (0.103) 0.407 (0.192) 0.809 0.430 0.936
Mean velocity 0.140 (0.063) 0.143 (0.056) 0.699 0.105 0.899 0.152 (0.085) 0.164 (0.075) 0.807 0.426 0.935
Mean frequency 0.497 (0.150) 0.466 (0.108) 0.795 0.389 0.931 0.461 (0.130) 0.440 (0.121) 0.900 0.703 0.967
95% frequency 1.735 (0.474) 1.718 (0.302) 0.672 0.024 0.890 1.630 (0.316) 1.538 (0.375) 0.853 0.561 0.951
Frequency dispersion 0.783 (0.036) 0.781 (0.037) 0.151 −1.528 0.715 0.748 (0.040) 0.753 (0.039) 0.438 −0.675 0.811

ICC values in boldface show at least “good” reliability (ICC > 0.60)