Monitoring change requires a rethink of assessment practices in voice and speech

Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 56-61

  Vogel, Adam P ^a   Maruff, Paul ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c Scientific Division   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acoustics; Repeated assessment; Speech; Statistics; Voice

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; HUMAN; PHONETICS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH DISORDER; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; VOICE;

ACOUSTICS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHONETICS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY; TIME FACTORS; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 84886399090     PISSN: 14015439     EISSN: 16512022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/14015439.2013.775332     Document Type: Article

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