Differences in mean motor activity and motion patterns over a 24 hour period among MD patients in the beginning of treatment (MD) and healthy controls (HC)—itemised in several feature-placement combinations measured in different accelerometer axes and sorted according to effect sizes by Cohen.

<p>Abbreviations: SD: standard deviation; n.s. = not significant;</p><p>*p≤0.05,</p><p>**p≤0.01,</p><p>***p≤0.001;</p><p>d: Cohen’s effect size.</p><p>¹calculated with spectral analysis;</p><p>²arbitrary unit: values are based on g but attenuated due to the computation of the spectrum and the nonstationarity of the data;</p><p>³cumulative acceleration of the three axes of the chest sensor computed following the rules of vector addition.</p><p>Differences in mean motor activity and motion patterns over a 24 hour period among MD patients in the beginning of treatment (MD) and healthy controls (HC)—itemised in several feature-placement combinations measured in different accelerometer axes and sorted according to effect sizes by Cohen.