Table 4.

Item loadings for the four-factor rotated solution. %, percentage of gait cycle; s, seconds; m, metres; m/s, metres per second. A minimum loading of 0.5 was considered relevant. Relevant item loadings in bold.

	variability	pace	base of support	base of support variability
single support phase variability (%)	0.759	−0.080	0.055	0.106
step time variability (s)	0.759	−0.094	0.043	0.281
step length variability (m)	0.652	0.151	0.134	−0.496
step length (m)	−0.001	0.910	0.142	−0.016
single support phase (%)	−0.131	0.841	−0.362	0.015
step width (m)	−0.058	−0.004	0.894	−0.003
step time (s)	0.448	−0.143	0.642	0.039
step width variability (m)	0.231	0.041	0.049	0.872
% of variance accounted for	23.15	19.94	17.34	13.74