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Probability - Statistics - Information Theory - Econometrics

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Probability

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Probability Distributions

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Univariate Probability Distribution

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Probability Distribution - Continuous Functions/Models (Probability Density Functions)

Logistic Distribution

Created on Sep 13, 2021 · Last Modified on Nov 28, 2021

Logistic Distribution
  • is a continuous probability distribution
  • its cumulative distribution function is the logistic function, which appears in logistic regression and feedforward neural networks
  • it resembles the normal distribution in shape but has heavier tails

Probability Density Function

When the location parameter 𝜇=0 and the scale parameter 𝑠=𝜎=1, then:

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Thus in general the density is:

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