Room acoustical parameters: A factor analysis approach

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 97-109

  Cerda S ^a   Gimenez A ^a   Romero, J ^a   Cibrian R ^b   Miralles, J L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Correlations; Factor analysis; Orthogonality; Room acoustics

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; AMPLIFICATION; ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; CORRELATION METHODS; IMPULSE RESPONSE; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ACOUSTICAL INFORMATIONS; ACOUSTICAL PARAMETERS; CORRELATIONS; FACTOR ANALYSES; FACTOR ANALYSIS; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; ORTHOGONALITY; ROOM ACOUSTICAL PARAMETERS; ROOM ACOUSTICS; WORK HYPOTHESIS;

SPEECH;

EID: 55049110538     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2008.01.001     Document Type: Article

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