Intertester reliability of the acceptable noise level

Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 534-541

  Gordon Hickey, Susan ^a   Adams, Elizabeth ^a   Moore, Robert ^a   Gaal, Ashley ^a   Berry, Katie ^a   Brock, Sommer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acceptable noise level; Background noise; Background noise acceptance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; LABORATORY; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; RANDOMIZATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; HEARING; HEARING AIDS; HUMANS; NOISE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864569372     PISSN: 10500545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3766/jaaa.23.7.5     Document Type: Article

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