Improving Hip-Worn Accelerometer Estimates of Sitting Using Machine Learning Methods.

Journal: Medicine and science in sports and exercise
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Abstract

PURPOSE: This study aimed to improve estimates of sitting time from hip-worn accelerometers used in large cohort studies by using machine learning methods developed on free-living activPAL data.

Authors

  • Jacqueline Kerr
    University of California San Diego.
  • Jordan Carlson
    Children's Mercy Kansas City, Kansas City, MO.
  • Suneeta Godbole
  • Lisa Cadmus-Bertram
    Department of Kinesiology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI.
  • John Bellettiere
    Department of Family Medicine and Public Health, UCSD, La Jolla, CA.
  • Sheri Hartman
    Moores Cancer Center, UCSD, La Jolla, CA.