title: Objective response detection in the frequency domain: comparison of several q-sample tests.
abstract: The objective assessment of the hearing threshold requires a suitable statistical test for response detection. For checking the q spectral lines of an auditory-evoked potential spectrum in the frequency domain, a q-sample test seems to be more favourable compared to q applications of a one-sample test. The response detection performance of three q-sample tests (q-sample analogue of Watsons U2 test, q-sample uniform scores test and a modified q-sample uniform scores test) has been checked by extensive Monte Carlo simulations. To compare the performance of the three test statistics, sensitivity was calculated and receiver-operating characteristics were constructed from the probability density functions estimated by the Monte Carlo simulations. In addition, a comparison on the basis of real near-threshold auditory brainstem response data was carried out. The modified q-sample uniform scores test appeared to be the most powerful test. Some aspects of the practical application of this test are discussed in this paper.
authors.affiliation: ENT Clinic, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Stürzebecher
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cebulla
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Wernecke
mesh_terms: D001307:Auditory Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D001309:Auditory Threshold / Q000502:physiology; D016057:Evoked Potentials, Auditory, Brain Stem; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological