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. 2021 Feb 8;30(6):1693–1704. doi: 10.1007/s11136-021-02778-5

Table 2.

Descriptive statistics for 99th percentile-trimmed dataset

Variable N M SD Median Min Max Skew Kurtosis
Item psycholinguistic characteristics
 Words 177 8.16 3.88 8 3 26 1.12 2.18
 Syllables 177 11.94 6.08 11 3 42 1.25 2.95
 Avg. word frequency 177 387,539.08 177,384.88 388,259 10,707 742,078 − 0.05 − 0.58
 Avg. age of acquisition 177 4.56 0.83 4.42 2.91 7.21 0.93 0.70
 Avg. imageability 177 341.61 60.51 337 179 489 0.30 0.03
Cognitive function scores
 Neuro-QoL cognitive function 577 50.01 9.82 49.7 17.9 69.9 − 0.14 − 0.09
Response times (in s)
 Overall 99,646 9.03 6.84 7 1 52 2.40 8.00
Condition
 ALS 12,911 6.68 5.95 5 1 52 3.13 13.71
 Epilepsy 20,690 8.47 6.67 7 1 52 2.43 8.40
 MS 27,928 9.97 7.02 8 1 52 2.37 7.26
 Parkinson’s 20,944 8.23 6.03 7 1 52 2.66 10.67
 Stroke 17,173 10.91 7.50 9 1 52 2.08 5.96
Item bank
 Anxiety 4567 8.48 6.38 7 1 52 2.73 10.89
 Ability to participate in SRA 4542 9.53 7.03 8 1 52 2.31 7.51
 Cognitive function 22,689 10.42 7.77 8 1 52 2.05 5.51
 Depression 4565 7.14 5.42 6 1 52 3.14 14.66
 Emot. and behav. dys 10,269 7.51 5.32 6 1 52 2.78 12.40
 Fatigue 10,828 8.06 5.69 7 1 52 2.55 10.16
 Lower ext.—mobility 9718 11.45 8.17 9 1 52 1.89 4.56
 Pos. affect and well being 5120 8.47 6.45 7 1 52 2.37 7.92
 Sleep disturbance 11,394 8.26 5.98 7 1 52 2.65 10.84
 Stigma 4571 8.26 5.90 7 1 52 2.53 9.34
 Upper ext.—fine motor/ADL 11,383 8.60 6.70 7 1 52 2.57 8.96

Values based on 1% trimmed sample (i.e., scores retained at or below 99th percentile)