Grouping successive freezing of gait episodes has neutral to detrimental effect on freeze detection and prediction in Parkinson’s disease

• Scott Pardoel,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

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• Gaurav Shalin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

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• Edward D. Lemaire ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Edward D. Lemaire, Jonathan Kofman, Julie Nantel

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa and Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada

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• Jonathan Kofman ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Edward D. Lemaire, Jonathan Kofman, Julie Nantel

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jkofman@uwaterloo.ca

  Affiliation Department of Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5060-967X

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• Julie Nantel

  Contributed equally to this work with: Edward D. Lemaire, Jonathan Kofman, Julie Nantel

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7253-9222

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