Using cluster analysis to classify audiogram shapes

International Journal of Audiology

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 628-633

  Lee, Cheng Yung ^a   Hwang, Juen Haur ^a,b   Hou, Szu Jen ^a   Liu, Tien Chen ^c  

^a BUDDHIST TZU CHI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b TZU CHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Audiometric shapes; Cluster analysis; Pure tone audiometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOMENCLATURE; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARD; TAIWAN;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TAIWAN; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 77955596369     PISSN: 14992027     EISSN: 17088186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/14992021003796887     Document Type: Article

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