A simple single-interval adaptive procedure for estimating thresholds in normal and impaired listeners

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 126, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 2570-2579

  Lecluyse, Wendy ^a   Meddis, Ray ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE PROCEDURE; HUMAN DATA; PSYCHOMETRIC FUNCTION;

DAMPING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; OPTOMETERS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ADAPTATION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEARING; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS;

EID: 70449440812     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3238248     Document Type: Article

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