Validity and repeatability of level-independent HL to SPL transforms

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 407-413

  Scollie, Susan D ^a   Seewald, Richard C ^a   Cornelisse, Leonard E ^a   Jenstad, Lorienne M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MICROPHONE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRANSDUCER;

ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING AIDS; HUMANS; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0031686590     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003446-199810000-00007     Document Type: Article

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