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. 2020 Nov 23;17:154. doi: 10.1186/s12984-020-00788-x

Table 2.

Tau-U summary index for clinical and kinematic outcome measures

Outcome measures Participants
P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7
Activity capacity assessments
 Action Research Arm Test 0.90 0.50 0.84 0.66 0.92 0.89 0.00
 Box and Block Test 0.50 0.18 − 0.10 0.14 0.78 − 0.14 0.00
 ABILHAND 0.85 − 0.22 0.92 0.83 − 0.24 0.37 − 0.07
Kinematic measures of drinking task
 Total movement time 0.25 0.64 0.88 − 0.17
 Smoothness. number of movement units 0.30 0.68 0.84 0.49
 Trunk displacement 0.25 0.08 0.40 0.66

Tau-U index: 0.00–0.25 very low, 0.26–0.49 low, 0.50– 0.69 moderate, 0.70–0.89 large, 0.90–1.00 very large effect. Negative numbers indicate a negative effect. Tau-U ≥ 0.50 is indicated in italics