logit
English
Etymology
Blend of logistic + unit, by analogy with probit, coined by Joseph Berkson in 1944:[1] “I use this term [logit] for following Bliss, who called the analogous function which is linear on for the normal curve ‘probit.’”
Noun
logit (plural logits)
- (mathematics) the inverse of the "sigmoid" or "logistic" function used in mathematics, especially in statistics. The logit of a number p between 0 and 1 is given by the formula:
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