Gait & Posture
Volume 31, Issue 4 , Pages 540-542 , April 2010

A new formulation of the coefficient of multiple correlation to assess the similarity of waveforms measured synchronously by different motion analysis protocols

  • Alberto Ferrari

      Affiliations

    • Department of Electronics, Computer Science and Systems, University of Bologna, Italy
    • I.N.A.I.L. Prostheses Centre, Vigorso di Budrio (BO), Italy
  • ,
  • Andrea Giovanni Cutti

      Affiliations

    • I.N.A.I.L. Prostheses Centre, Vigorso di Budrio (BO), Italy
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: I.N.A.I.L. Prostheses Centre, Via Rabuina, 14, I-40054 Vigorso di Budrio (BO), Italy. Tel.: +39 051 6936601; fax: +39 051 6936609.
  • ,
  • Angelo Cappello

      Affiliations

    • Department of Electronics, Computer Science and Systems, University of Bologna, Italy

Received 21 July 2009 ,Revised 6 December 2009 ,Accepted 8 February 2010.

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PII: S0966-6362(10)00062-7

doi: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2010.02.009

Gait & Posture
Volume 31, Issue 4 , Pages 540-542 , April 2010