In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, surpass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I would greatly appreciate it if someone would please point me to a >reference for determining the probability that an observation will lie >between 2 points for the logistic distribution? For instance, is there >a table like the Z-table for the normal distribution? The logistic distribution gets its name from the fact that its CDF is the logistic curve, F(x) = 1/(1+exp(-x)). (You might want to differentiate this to make sure it matches your idea of the density function for a "standard" logistic distribution.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Radford M. Neal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Statistics and Dept. of Computer Science [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Toronto http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~radford ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
