prolonged.sed.bouts.min: Estimate Time in Prolonged Sedentary Bouts

In activpalProcessing: Process activPAL Events Files

Description

This function calculates the minutes spent in sitting/lying bouts that last at least 'n' minutes in duration. User specifies n.

Usage

prolonged.sed.bouts.min(posture, epoch = 1, n)

Arguments

posture	posture is a vector indicating sitting (0), standing (1) and stepping (2)
epoch	numeric value indicating what epoch (in seconds) the data are in (e.g. 60 = 1 minute epochs). The default value is 1 second
n	n is a numeric value indicating the duration (in minutes) of prolonged sedentary bouts of interest

Value

A numeric value indicating minutes spent in sedentary bouts longer than 'n' minutes in duration

Author(s)

John Staudenmayer

See Also

prolonged.sed.bouts.num

Examples

data(second.by.second.data)
posture <- second.by.second.data$ap.posture

# estimates minutes spent in sedentary bouts lasting at least 60 minutes 
prolonged.sed.bouts.min(posture,epoch=1,n=60) 

activpalProcessing documentation built on May 2, 2019, 2:17 a.m.