Expending our physical activity (measurement) budget wisely.

to investigate the role of physical activity in maintaining health, the traditional argument has been that the number of outcome events is limiting, and therefore large numbers of individuals must be enrolled and costs per assessment must be small. Based on both this rationale and the fact that

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