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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2017 May;49(5):1022–1028. doi: 10.1249/MSS.0000000000001177

Table 1.

activPAL performance compared to direct observation (mean (95% CI)).

DO AP

MVPA (min) 68.3 (66.2, 70.4) 65.8 (63.9, 67.7)
Bias - −2.6 (−5.8, 0.7)
rMSE - 8.4
ICC - 0.98 (0.95, 0.99)*

Light (min) 143.8 (139.4, 148.3) 145.6 (141.2, 150.0)
Bias - 1.7 (2.2, 5.7)
rMSE - 12.3
ICC - 0.99 (0.98, 0.99)*

Sedentary (min) 356.8 (351.3, 362.3) 357.6 (352.1, 363.1)
Bias - 0.8 (−2.9, 4.5)
rMSE - 11.5
ICC - 0.99 (0.99, 1.00)*

Guideline Minutes 41.3 (39.2, 43.5) 35.9 (33.8, 37.9)
Bias - −5.4 (−11.9, 1.0)
rMSE - 17.3
ICC - 0.91 (0.83, 0.95)*

Guideline Bouts 1.8 (1.8, 1.9) 1.6 (1.5, 1.7)
Bias - −0.3 (−0.6, 0.0)
rMSE - 0.7
ICC - 0.92 (0.84, 0.96)*

Number sedentary bouts > 30 min 3.0 (2.9, 3.1) 3.3 (3.2, 3.4)
Bias - 0.3 (0.0, 0.7)
rMSE - 1.0
ICC - 0.86 (0.73, 0.93)*

Number sedentary bouts > 60 min 0.9 (0.8, 0.9) 0.9 (0.9, 1.0)
Bias - 0.0 (−0.3, 0.3)
rMSE - 0.6
ICC - 0.80 (0.64, 0.89)*

Minutes sedentary bouts > 30 min 169.6 (163.8, 175.4) 188.8 (182.8, 194.8)
Bias - 18.0 (−9.8, 45.9)
rMSE - 65.1
ICC - 0.84 (0.71, 0.91)*

Minutes sedentary bouts > 60 min 79.4 (74.8, 84.1) 86.3 (81.7, 90.9)
Bias - 5.6 (−20.9, 32.1)
rMSE - 60.2
ICC - 0.78 (0.61, 0.88)*

rMSE = root mean squared error, ICC = intraclass correlation coefficient.