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  • Exercise Physiology
  • Personalized Medicine
  • Biostatistics

Background:

  • Interindividual differences in exercise training response (subject-by-training interaction) are increasingly important in personalized medicine.
  • Standard methods for quantifying and predicting these individual responses are lacking due to complexities of interactive effects.
  • Confounding factors like measurement error and within-subject variability complicate accurate response estimation, especially at the individual level.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To highlight the statistical challenges in quantifying subject-by-training interaction.
  • To discuss the difficulties in predicting individual exercise training responses.
  • To advocate for pragmatic alternatives due to practical limitations in current statistical approaches.

Main Methods:

  • Discussion of variance component analysis for subject-by-training interaction.
  • Consideration of measurement error and within-subject variation.
  • Exploration of predictive modeling, including additive versus interactive approaches.

Main Results:

  • Accurate quantification of subject-by-training interaction requires careful consideration of confounding variability sources.
  • Low signal-to-noise ratios on an individual level cannot be overcome by increasing sample size.
  • Within-subject variation in training efficacy is a significant, understudied source of response variability.
  • Predictive accuracy may be enhanced by interactive models, but practical implementation is challenging.

Conclusions:

  • Investigating subject-by-training interaction necessitates specific statistical approaches addressing individual-level complexities.
  • Practical difficulties in achieving conclusive inference and optimal predictive accuracy warrant the development of pragmatic alternatives.
  • Further research into within-subject variability and interactive prediction models is crucial for advancing personalized exercise interventions.