Gait & Posture
Volume 30, Issue 4 , Pages 441-445 , November 2009

Simultaneous estimation of effects of gender, age and walking speed on kinematic gait data

  • Jo Røislien

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biostatistics, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Boks 1122 Blindern, 0317 Oslo, Norway
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +47 22 85 14 05; fax: +47 22 85 13 13.
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  • Øivind Skare

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biostatistics, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Boks 1122 Blindern, 0317 Oslo, Norway
    • Sunnaas Rehabilitation Hospital, Nesoddtangen, Norway
    • Division of Epidemiology, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
    • Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care, University of Bergen, Norway
    • ,
  • Marit Gustavsen

      Affiliations

    • Sunnaas Rehabilitation Hospital, Nesoddtangen, Norway
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  • Nana L. Broch

      Affiliations

    • Sunnaas Rehabilitation Hospital, Nesoddtangen, Norway
    • OCH Ortopedi AS, Oslo, Norway
    • ,
  • Linda Rennie

      Affiliations

    • Sunnaas Rehabilitation Hospital, Nesoddtangen, Norway
    • ,
  • Arve Opheim

      Affiliations

    • Sunnaas Rehabilitation Hospital, Nesoddtangen, Norway

Received 17 October 2008 ,Revised 25 March 2009 ,Accepted 1 July 2009.

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PII: S0966-6362(09)00195-7

doi: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2009.07.002

Gait & Posture
Volume 30, Issue 4 , Pages 441-445 , November 2009

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