Role of the kurtosis statistic in evaluating complex noise exposures for the protection of hearing

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 628-634

  Davis, Robert I ^a   Qiu, Wei ^a   Hamernik, Roger P ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BRAIN STEM; CELL COUNT; CHINCHILLA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; HEARING ACUITY; INDUSTRIAL NOISE; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; INNER EAR DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SPECTRUM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BRAIN STEM; CHINCHILLA; EAR PROTECTIVE DEVICES; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; HAIR CELLS, AUDITORY; HEARING LOSS, NOISE-INDUCED; INFERIOR COLLICULI; NOISE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY;

EID: 70349113139     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AUD.0b013e3181b527a8     Document Type: Article

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