The application of the kurtosis metric in evaluating hearing trauma from complex noise exposures
QIU Wei
ZHANG Meibian
XU Weichao
YU Ning
SUN Wei
HE Yuhong
ZHAO Yiming
YANG Qiuling
XIONG Wenbo
Abstract：A number of animal experiments and epidemiologic studies in humans have demonstrated that current in-ternational standards for noise exposure may underestimate hearing trauma by complex noise. While energy is a necessary metric, it is not sufficient to evaluate hearing hazards from complex noise exposure. The characteristic of complex noise is also an important factor in evaluating complex noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL). In this paper, the studies on using kurto-sis as a metric for complex NIHL evaluation in both animal and human models are introduced. The further research direc-tion and application prospect of kurtosis are discussed.
Keywords：Complex noisekurtosisnoise-induced hearing loss
Publication Date：2016-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：7( 701-707 )