Table 4. PTA and SD of the Right ears by age

Right Age 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Kruskal-Wallis test Total
n 11 55 70 12 14 8 5 H-statistic p-value 175
Frequency(Hz) 250 5.45±4.50 8.00±6.00 8.07±5.56 10±4.26 7.50±5.10 7.50±4.63 7.00±2.74 4.6237 0.5929 7.93±5.44
500 4.55±2.57 6.91±4.62 7.14±4.10 6.67±2.46 7.50±3.80 6.88±3.72 6.00±2.24 5.0394 0.5388 6.88±4.05
1,000 6.36±3.08 6.73±4.18 7.00±4.09 7.50±2.61 5.71±3.85 7.50±5.98 6.00±2.24 1.7889 0.9381 6.88±4.05
2,000 6.82±3.86 6.36±4.42 6.36±3.68 7.50±3.37 7.14±4.26 7.50±4.63 7.00±2.74 2.3533 0.8845 6.79±4.00
3,000 6.82±4.90 6.82±5.51 6.21±4.18 5.83±4.69 5.71±4.32 4.38±3.20 5.00±3.54 2.3349 0.8865 6.59±3.96
4,000 7.73±6.86 6.82±4.71 5.86±3.87 6.67±3.89 8.57±5.35 3.13±3.72 5.00±3.54 9.1466 0.1655 6.42±4.58
Kruskal-Wallis test H-statistic 2.7249 1.8801 11.0003 7.4218 3.6798 7.5165 2.3652 - - -
p-value 0.7423 0.8655 0.0514 0.1911 0.5964 0.1850 0.7966 - - -
6 PTAs 6.44±2.54 6.65±3.36 6.62±2.82 7.22±2.26 6.96±3.44 6.67±3.56 6.17±2.09 - - 6.68±2.99
PTA: pure tone threshold average, SD: standard deviation, 6PTAs: 6 pure tone threshold averages.