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Endurance based personalized fitness planner
2016 38th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2016Endurance is an important factor of cardiovascular fitness indicating the capacity of an individual to perform exercise for a longer duration with increased intensity. Various subject specific and exercise related parameters affect endurance of an individual.
Saswata Sahoo +2 more
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Person-Fit Research: An Introduction
Applied Measurement in Education, 1996Investigates if person-fit statistics can be used to detect deviant score patterns.
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Accuracy of Person-Fit Statistics
Applied Psychological Measurement, 2011Using a Monte Carlo experimental design, this research examined the relationship between answer patterns’ aberrance rates and person-fit statistics (PFS) accuracy. It was observed that as the aberrance rate increased, the detection rates of PFS also increased until, in some situations, a peak was reached and then the detection ...
Christina St-Onge +3 more
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Supporting Meaningful Personal Fitness
Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2018While the number of users sporting fitness trackers is constantly increasing, little is understood about how tracking goals can evolve over time. As recent studies have shown that the long-term health effects of trackers are limited, we need to readdress how trackers engage users.
Jasmin Niess, Pawel W. Wozniak
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An ecosystem of platforms to support sensors for personal fitness
International Workshop on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks (BSN'06), 2006We have developed a collection of portable platforms to enable context-aware applications to help users with their personal fitness. Our approach has been to focus on established form-factors such as cellphones and wrist-watches for the user interfaces.
Gaetano Borriello +4 more
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The Many Null Distributions of Person Fit Indices
Psychometrika, 1990This paper deals with the situation of an investigator who has collected the scores of n persons to a set of k dichotomous items, and wants to investigate whether the answers of all respondents are compatible with the one parameter logistic test model of Rasch.
Molenaar, IW, Hoijtink, H
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Guidelines for an Effective Personal Fitness Prescription
The Nurse Practitioner, 1987The growing popularity of personal fitness can be observed in the increasing number of exercise centers and spas, and the burgeoning amount of lay literature. It is estimated that 50 percent of adult Americans engage in some form of regular exercise, but many have little or no concept of what constitutes a safe, effective fitness program.
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Person-Fit to the Five Factor Model of Personality
Swiss Journal of Psychology, 2012The Five Factor Model (FFM), a valid model of interindividual differences in the personality of a group of people, reportedly does not always provide a good fit for the individuals of that group. In addition to intraindividual variation across a considerable period of time, meaningful intraindividual variation can be observed within a single test ...
Allik, J. +5 more
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Efficient Corrections for Standardized Person-Fit Statistics
PsychometrikaMany popular person-fit statistics belong to the class of standardized person-fit statistics, T, and are assumed to have a standard normal null distribution. However, in practice, this assumption is incorrect since T is computed using (a) an estimated ability parameter and (b) a finite number of items.
Kylie Gorney +2 more
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Journal of Health, Physical Education, Recreation, 1968
(1968). Personal Fitness Record. Journal of Health, Physical Education, Recreation: Vol. 39, No. 3, pp. 64-66.
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(1968). Personal Fitness Record. Journal of Health, Physical Education, Recreation: Vol. 39, No. 3, pp. 64-66.
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