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Table 3 Lexical description of the corpora used to describe each symptom

From: Discomfort, pain and stiffness: what do these terms mean to patients? A cross-sectional survey with lexical and qualitative analyses

 

Discomfort

Pain

Stiffness

Tokens (word count)

574

771

776

Types (unique words)

229

319

291

Type/Token Ratio

0.04

0.41

0.38

Token/Type Ratio

2.51

2.42

2.67

Lexical Density

0.51

0.55

0.56

GSL (%)

86.4

83.79

88.14

AWL (%)

5.75

7.91

5.80

Off-list (%)

7.84

8.30

6.06

  1. GSL (%) = percentage of tokens from among the General Service List, AWL (%) = percentage of tokens from among the Academic Word List, Off-list (%) = percentage of words from neither the GSL or AWL
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BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

ISSN: 1471-2474

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