Application of the kurtosis statistic to the evaluation of the risk of hearing loss in workers exposed to high-level complex noise

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 527-532

  Zhao, Yi Ming ^a   Qiu, Wei ^b   Zeng, Lin ^a   Chen, Shan Song ^c   Cheng, Xiao Ru ^a   Davis, Robert I ^b   Hamernik, Roger P ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY THIRD HOSPITAL   (China)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c Center for Disease Control of ZhengZhou   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL NOISE; MALE; NOISE INJURY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, NOISE-INDUCED; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE, OCCUPATIONAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 77955822394     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AUD.0b013e3181d94e68     Document Type: Article

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