The kurtosis metric as an adjunct to energy in the prediction of trauma from continuous, nonGaussian noise exposures

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 3901-3906

  Qiu, Wei ^a   Hamernik, Roger P ^a   Davis, Bob ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; AUDITION; BANDWIDTH; CELLS; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); SENSORY PERCEPTION;

BROADBAND NOISE; KURTOSIS METRIC; NONGAUSSIAN NOISE EXPOSURES;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHINCHILLA; ENERGY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EVOKED RESPONSE AUDIOMETRY; GAUSSIAN NOISE; HEARING LOSS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; KURTOSIS METRIC; NOISE; NOISE INJURY; NOISE POLLUTION; NONGAUSSIAN NOISE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY CELL LOSS; SENSORY NERVE CELL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS;

ANIMALS; CHINCHILLA; COCHLEA; HEARING LOSS, NOISE-INDUCED; NOISE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANDOM ALLOCATION;

EID: 33845356211     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2372455     Document Type: Article

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