As no clear criteria exist for acceptable value of intra-rater and inter-rater agreements for active ROM outcome measures, we defined, a priori, that a difference in measurement between the raters of 10% of the total range of measurement values would be acceptable.
Next, the relationship between these two sets of sensory data is analyzed using the data clustering algorithm and a number of linguistic similarity and relevancy measures we defined.
To compare Netdis with such baseline measures, we defined Ddis and Cdis as the values of the Kolmogorov Smirnov test statistic between the empirical distribution of nodes degrees and local clustering coefficients, respectively, for a given pair of networks.
In summary, the homology measures we defined, persistent homology/ Betti numbers are measures of (i) the number of independent n-dimensional cycles, and (ii) the amount of connectivity that would be needed in order to annihilate these cycles.
Because there is a tendency for people to over-report adherence on these measures, we defined nonadherence as less than perfect adherence on either the AIDS Clinical Trial Group Measure or the visual analog scale, thus establishing a conservative definition of self-reported nonadherence.
