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  • noun statistics A unit, derived from a standard distribution, used in measuring the responses to doses

Etymologies

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From probability + unit. Coined by Chester Ittner Bliss in 1934.

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Examples

  • Apophenia is a free scientific computing library that provides functions on the same level as those of the typical stats package (such as probit, OLS, or singular value decomposition) but gives the user more flexibility to be creative in model-building.

    Softpedia - Windows - All 2010

  • Only by performing an occult statistical manipulation called “ordered probit estimates,” do the authors manage to tease out any trend at all, and it is a tiny one: “Women were one percentage point less likely than men to say they were not too happy at the beginning of the sample [1972]; by 2006 women were one percentage more likely to report being in this category.”

    14 « October « 2009 « Dating Jesus 2009

  • Only by performing an occult statistical manipulation called “ordered probit estimates,” do the authors manage to tease out any trend at all, and it is a tiny one: “Women were one percentage point less likely than men to say they were not too happy at the beginning of the sample [1972]; by 2006 women were one percentage more likely to report being in this category.”

    I’m a feminist and I’m happy. What’s WRONG with me? « Dating Jesus 2009

  • Only by performing an occult statistical manipulation called "ordered probit estimates," do the authors manage to tease out any trend at all, and it is a tiny one: "Women were one percentage point less likely than men to say they were not too happy at the beginning of the sample [1972]; by 2006 women were one percentage more likely to report being in this category."

    Barbara Ehrenreich: Are Women Getting Sadder? 2009

  • The recent, and crucial development of a fixed effects ordered probit estimator springs to mind.

    Revealed Preference vs. Happiness, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • The operations of the Bank of England, 1890-1908: a dynamic probit approach.

    Interview With Steve Renner of CashCards.net, e-gold's�� New Primary Dealer 2008

  • Again “Jesus would be a Liberal” – why – because he teaches us to love one another, not to start religious wars for probit, and take care of others, because of we all brothers and sisters.

    Think Progress » Are liberal blogs 2006

  • St. Athanasius, (I ad Cor. probit autem) having examined thy Conscience, always come to the Communion, without staying for a holy day.

    The spiritual guide which disentangles the soul / by Michael de Molinos ; edited with an introduction by Kathleen Lyttelton and a note by H. Scott Holland. 1907

  • Finally, we apply probit regressions in STATA to analyse the cross-sectional data coming from the aforementioned survey.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles Beatus Leon 2010

  • Guided by these general equilibrium comparative statics, we specified a simple logit (and probit) model to estimate the influence on the likelihood of a bilateral FTA between i and j of indexes for each country of "multilateral FTAs" and "ROW FTAs" -- in the spirit of Anderson and van Wincoop's (2003) "multilateral resistance" terms.

    Econbrowser 2010

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  • some baffingly specific statistics term. Has to do with probability and regression models

    October 30, 2008

  • Don't forget its sibling the logit, used in logistic regression.

    And its slightly less reputable cousin the tobit, manipulated in shady econometric models by rogue economists with access to way too much computing power.

    October 30, 2008