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. 2020 Jul 2;11:632. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2020.00632

Table 5.

Variability of synergies.

References Between strides Between days
VAF1 (%) Structure VAF1 (%) Structure
Shuman et al. (2016) Mean std:
CP = 5.0% (range 2.5–7.5%);
TD = 4.9% (range 3.7–6.5%)
Mean max difference:
CP = 19.1%; TD = 18.2%
- Day 1:
CP = 77.4 ± 5.3%;
TD = 68.4 ± 5.0%
Day 2:
CP = 76.9 ± 4.8%;
TD = 68.4 ± 4.7%
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Steele et al. (2019) - - Average change day 1 to day 2:
4.24 ± 3.09%
CS (day 1 vs. day 2):
2 syn: w = 0.89 ± 0.10; act = 0.93 ± 0.06 3 syn: w = 0.83 ± 0.11; act = 0.91 ± 0.06
4 syn: w = 0.90 ± 0.08; act = 0.92 ± 0.05
Kim Y. et al. (2018) - Normalized cluster number* for VAF
>80%: CP = 0.38 ± 0.06;
TD = 0.33 ± 0.04
>85%: CP = 0.37 ± 0.07;
TD = 0.31 ± 0.05
>90%: CP = 0.41 ± 0.05;
TD = 0.34 ± 0.08
>95%: CP = 0.39 ± 0.05;
TD = 0.34 ± 0.02
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CP, cerebral palsy; TD, typically developing; VAF1, variance accounted for by one synergy (%); std, standard deviation; max, maximum; CS, cosine similarity; syn, synergies; w, weights; act, activations.