Tobit

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Etymology 1

From the Ancient Greek Τωβίτ (Tōbít), from Hebrew טוֹבִּי (tovi, literally “my good”).

Proper noun

Tobit

  1. A book of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canon of the Old Testament, considered apocryphal by Protestants.
  2. (rare) A male given name from Hebrew.
    • Template:RQ:Authorized Version:
      I Tobit have walked all the days of my life in the ways of truth and justice, and I did many almsdeeds to my brethren, and my nation, who came with me to Nineve, into the land of the Assyrians.

Etymology 2

Coined by A. S. Goldberg in 1964[1] as these type of models were first proposed by James Tobin [2] and are similar to probit models.

Noun

Tobit (uncountable)

  1. (statistics) a model where the dependent variable is censored.

References

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  2. ^ Tobin, James (1958) “Estimation of relationships for limited dependent variables”, in Econometrica‎[1], volume 26, number 1, The Econometric Society, →DOI, pages 24–36

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