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. 2020 Dec 16;7(4):122–129. doi: 10.20407/fmj.2020-013

Table2.

List of finger parameters

 1 Max of distance amplitude
 2 Total traveling distance
 3 Avg. of local max. distance
 4 SD of local max. distance
 5 Slope of approximate line of local max. points
 6 SD of local max. distance in three adjacent taps
 7 Max. of velocity amplitude
 8 Avg. of local max. velocity
 9 Avg. of local min. velocity
10 SD of local max. velocity
11 SD of local min. velocity
12 Energy balance
13 Number of freezing calculated from velocity
14 Avg. of distance rate of velocity peak in extending movement
15 Avg. of distance rate of velocity peak in flexing movement
16 Ratio of distance rates of velocity peak in extending and flexing movements
17 SD of distance rate of velocity peak in extending movement
18 SD of distance rate of velocity peak in flexing movement
19 Max of acceleration amplitude
20 Avg. of local max. acceleration in extending movement
21 Avg. of local min. acceleration in extending movement
22 Avg. of local max. acceleration in flexing movement
23 Avg. of local min. acceleration in flexing movement
24 Avg. of contact duration
25 SD of contact duration
26 Number of zero crossover points of acceleration
27 Number of freezing calculated from acceleration
28 Avg. of tapping interval
29 SD of inter-tapping interval
30 Inter-tapping interval variability
31 Skewness of inter-tapping interval distribution
32 SD of inter-tapping interval in three adjacent taps
33 Avg. of phase difference between the left hand and right hand tapping
34 SD of phase difference between the left hand and right hand tapping
35 Similarity of hands
36 Time lag of similarity of hands

Max: Maximum; Min: Minimum; Ave: Average; SD: Standard deviation

Standard deviation and coefficient of variation are parameters with high similarity to each other and indicate “variation.” In this study, to avoid multicollinearity, we used standard deviation parameters and omitted parameters indicating the coefficient of variation.