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Each patient received RAGT with an exoskeleton (Lokomat; Hocoma, Volketswil, Switzerland) as part of a multidisciplinary rehabilitation program. We stratified the patients as good responders and poor responders and investigated the effect of varying the number of RAGT sessions with a series of logistic regression models. A total of 143 patients were included in this analysis (good responders\u2009=\u200965, poor responders\u2009=\u200978). Good responder patients spent more days in the hospital (<jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P<\/jats:italic>\u2009&lt;\u20090.01) and underwent a higher number of RAGT sessions (<jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.04) compared to poor responder patients. Logistic regression models estimated that adding six RAGT sessions mildly increased (by approximately 4%) the probability of a patient becoming a good responder. The rehabilitation phase (subacute\/chronic) appeared to be the main determinant of the probability of being a good responder, and stroke patients appeared to be more sensitive to changes in the number of RAGT sessions. 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