Confidence intervals for the mean of sound exposure levels

American Industrial Hygiene Association Journal

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 640-645

  Grzebyk, Michel ^a   Thiéry, Léon ^a  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE ET DE SÉCURITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Confidence intervals; Lognormal distribution; Occupational noise exposure; Sampling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE; INDUSTRIAL NOISE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SOUND PRESSURE;

HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NOISE, OCCUPATIONAL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0141995661     PISSN: 15428117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15428110308984857     Document Type: Article

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