The use of the kurtosis metric in the evaluation of occupational hearing loss in workers in China: Implications for hearing risk assessment

This study examined: (1) the value of using the statistical metric, kurtosis [β(t)], along with an energy metric to determine the hazard to hearing from high level industrial noise environments, and (2) the accuracy of the International Standard Organization (ISO-1999:1990) model for median noise-in...

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Main Authors: Robert I Davis, Wei Qiu, Nicholas J Heyer, Yiming Zhao, M S Qiuling Yang, Nan Li, Liyuan Tao, Liangliang Zhu, Lin Zeng, Daohua Yao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2012-01-01
Series:Noise and Health
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Online Access:http://www.noiseandhealth.org/article.asp?issn=1463-1741;year=2012;volume=14;issue=61;spage=330;epage=342;aulast=Davis