Individual response to exercise training - a statistical perspective

• Published in: Journal of applied physiology (1985) Vol. 118; no. 12; pp. 1450 - 1459
• Main Authors: Hecksteden, Anne, Kraushaar, Jochen, Scharhag-Rosenberger, Friederike, Theisen, Daniel, Senn, Stephen, Meyer, Tim
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Physiological Society 15.06.2015
• Subjects: Data Interpretation, Statistical; Exercise; Exercise - physiology; Humans; Measurement; Physical Education and Training - statistics & numerical data; Physical training; Sample size; Signal to noise ratio; Training; variance components; interaction; prediction; moderator; determinant

In the era of personalized medicine, interindividual differences in the magnitude of response to an exercise training program (subject-by-training interaction; “individual response”) have received increasing scientific interest. However, standard approaches for quantification and prediction remain t...