The value of a kurtosis metric in estimating the hazard to hearing of complex industrial noise exposures

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 133, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2856-2866

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

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EQUIVALENT ENERGY; HEARING THRESHOLD; INDUSTRIAL NOISE; NOISE EXPOSURE; NOISE SIGNALS; NON-GAUSSIAN NOISE; SURFACE PREPARATION; TEMPORAL STRUCTURES;

GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS;

AUDITION;

ANIMAL; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHINCHILLA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; HEARING LOSS, NOISE-INDUCED; HUMAN; NOISE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOUND DETECTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; WORKPLACE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHINCHILLA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; HEARING LOSS, NOISE-INDUCED; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NOISE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS; WORKPLACE;

EID: 84877630844     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4799813     Document Type: Article

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