Hearing Loss in Children
Setting up R Packages
Introduction
Children are monitored for OME (fluid in the middle ear) over time. It is believed that they later suffer from “binaural hearing loss” (detecting sound amplitude and direction) after past episodes of OME during their childhood. The hearing-test is conducted multiple times, with a Test Signal embedded in noise played over audio loudspeakers. One loudspeaker has only Noise, and the other loudspeaker has the Test Signal in Noise. There are also two types of Test Signals: one is like noise itself and the other is distinct. In any test round, children are expected to orient themselves towards the appropriate loudspeaker and detect the presence of the Test Signal at varying levels of volume, with a passing success rate of 75% over multiple tests.
This dataset is available on Vincent Arel-Bundock’s dataset repository.
Read the Data
Rows: 1,097
Columns: 8
$ rownames <dbl> 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18…
$ ID <dbl> 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 3…
$ Age <dbl> 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 60, 60, 60, 60, 60, 6…
$ OME <chr> "low", "low", "low", "low", "low", "low", "low", "low", "low"…
$ Loud <dbl> 35, 35, 40, 40, 45, 45, 50, 50, 55, 55, 35, 35, 40, 40, 45, 4…
$ Noise <chr> "coherent", "incoherent", "coherent", "incoherent", "coherent…
$ Correct <dbl> 1, 4, 0, 1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 3, 2, 2, 3, 1, 1, 1, 5, 4, 2, 3, 4, 4…
$ Trials <dbl> 4, 5, 3, 1, 4, 2, 3, 4, 3, 2, 4, 4, 4, 1, 2, 5, 4, 2, 3, 4, 6…
Data Dictionary
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Research Question
In hearing tests on people with varying levels of OME infection in their childhood, what is the effect of using distinct types of Test Signal on successful (face) orientation ?
Analyse/Transform the Data
Plot the Data
Task and Discussion
- Complete the Data Dictionary.
- Select and Transform the variables as shown.
- Create the graphs shown and discuss the following questions:
- Identify the type of charts
- Identify the variables used for various geometrical aspects (x, y, fill…). Name the variables appropriately.
- What research activity might have been carried out to obtain the data graphed here? Provide some details.
- What pre-processing of the data was required to create the chart?
- Write a 2-line story based on the chart, describing your inference/surprise. Is there something counter-intuitive (to a lay person) in the chart?