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Table 1 Participant characteristics by group

From: On the use of approximate entropy and sample entropy with centre of pressure time-series

 

One-way ANOVA

Descriptive statistics by group

Post hoc

  

Young (n = 85)

Non-Fallers (n = 56)

Fallers (n = 18)

NF - Y

F - Y

F - NF

Variable

F

p-value

Mean(SD)

Mean(SD)

Mean(SD)

MD

p-value

MD

P-value

MD

p-value

Age, years

722.3

< 0.001

27.7(7.78)

71.5(6.35)

71.2(7.12)

43.8

< 0.001

43.5

<0.001

−0.3

0.984

Height, cm

26.2

< 0.001

166.8(8.75)

157.8(8.73)

155.2(6.16)

−9

< 0.001

-11.6

<0.001

−2.6

0.502

Weight, kg

2.24

0.11

61.6(7.73)

63.9(8.43)

60(8.10)

2.3

0.207

-1.6

0.718

−3.9

0.163

BMI, kg/m2

26.7

< 0.001

22.2(2.82)

25.7(2.97)

24.9(2.84)

3.5

< 0.001

2.7

0.001

−0.8

0.540

  1. F F = statistic deviation, MD mean difference, BMI body mass index. Bold values indicate significant differences