Table 2. Descriptive Statistics stratified by ‘Task’ and ‘Groups’

Task SV CS EXT
Groups Normal Presby p Normal Presby p Normal Presby p
CPP 28.3±3.6 19.7±3.8 <0.01* 23.4±2.6 18.4±3.3 <0.01* 24.2±3.2 17.9±3.5 <0.01*
CPPS 17.5±2.5 11.0±3.0 <0.01* 13.6±2.3 10.0±2.6 <0.01* 14.4±2.3 9.5±2.8 <0.01*
LHRatio 6.1±1.3 6.1±1.4 0.851 6.0±1.2 6.3±1.2 0.022 6.3±1.2 6.1±1.3 0.256
p<0.01. Presby : presbyphonia, CPP : cepstral peak prominence, CPPS : smoothed cepstral peak prominence, LHRatio : L/H spectral ratio, SV : sustained vowel, CS : continuous speech, EXT : extracted continuous speech