Hearing protector performance and standard deviation

Noise and Health

Volumn 7, Issue 28, 2005, Pages 51-60

  Williams, Warwick ^a   Dillon, H ^a  

^a NATIONAL ACOUSTIC LABORATORIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attenuation performance; Hearing protectors; NRR; SLC; SNR

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EAR PROTECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NOISE; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 29244442984     PISSN: 14631741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1463-1741.31629     Document Type: Article

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