Hearing impairment and the log-normal distribution

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 203-217

  Bowater, R J ^a   Copas, J B ^a   Machado, O A ^a   Davis, A C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b Institute of Hearing Research   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Audiogram; Generalized linear model; Hearing thresholds; Log normal distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038973956     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2986155     Document Type: Article

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