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. 2018 Feb 14;13(2):e0192767. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0192767

Table 2. Head posture: Summary statistics of orientation angles (in DEG).

Pitch, yaw, and roll angles of each trial video sequence were summarized by their respective mean and range. For each dataset (BioVid, UNBC, and BP4D) and statistic (columns) we report mean and standard deviation, M (SD), of pain and control trials as well as the p-value of the respective analysis of variance (rows). Significant differences are highlighted in bold.

Pitch angle Yaw angle Roll angle
mean range mean range mean range
BioVid
Pain 5.5 (0.2) 8.4 (0.2) -1.0 (0.2) 8.1 (0.3) -0.4 (0.1) 3.5 (0.1)
No pain 4.9 (0.2) 5.0 (0.1) 0.0 (0.2) 5.9 (0.2) -0.4 (0.1) 2.4 (0.1)
p = 0.049 p < 0.001 p < 0.001 p < 0.001 p = 0.877 p < 0.001
UNBC
Affected limb (pain) 9.8 (0.7) 16.8 (0.8) 0.0 (0.7) 15.6 (0.9) 2.3 (0.5) 11.9 (0.7)
Unaffected limb 10.6 (0.7) 13.4 (0.7) 1.1 (1.0) 17.2 (1.1) 2.2 (0.5) 10.8 (0.6)
p = 0.422 p = 0.003 p = 0.350 p = 0.273 p = 0.803 p = 0.241
BP4D
T6 (Pain) 3.9 (1.3) 21.4 (2.3) 1.0 (0.5) 18.2 (1.8) -0.6 (0.5) 8.8 (1.1)
T1 (Amusement) 2.8 (1.2) 21.2 (1.8) 1.0 (0.4) 11.1 (1.3) 0.4 (0.5) 9.4 (1.3)
T2 (Sadness) 3.3 (0.9) 9.5 (1.8) -3.4 (0.5) 6.6 (0.7) -1.3 (0.6) 4.1 (0.5)
T3 (Surprise) 3.3 (1.0) 20.6 (2.2) -2.6 (0.5) 13.8 (2.3) -0.5 (0.4) 7.3 (0.9)
T4 (Embarrassment) 3.0 (1.0) 33.7 (3.1) 1.1 (0.4) 18.6 (2.3) 0.0 (0.5) 16.1 (2.2)
T5 (Fear) 4.1 (1.3) 25.2 (2.4) 0.3 (0.5) 14.9 (3.0) -0.2 (0.4) 8.6 (1.6)
T7 (Anger) 2.9 (1.1) 21.5 (1.8) 2.7 (0.6) 15.4 (1.6) 0.0 (0.6) 11.4 (1.0)
T8 (Disgust) 4.9 (1.2) 18.6 (2.1) -0.8 (0.5) 10.9 (1.5) -0.2 (0.4) 5.3 (0.7)
p = 0.890 p < 0.001 p < 0.001 p < 0.001 p = 0.359 p < 0.001

Pitch angle: positive / negative is lowered / raised head

Yaw angle: positive / negative is turned left / right

Roll angle: positive / negative is tilted right / left

mean: measures the central tendency of posture angles occurring during a trial

range: measures the difference between the most extreme posture angles during a trial and captures the variability of poses independently of the duration of their occurrence