Tobit

English

Etymology 1

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

Proper noun

Tobit

  1. (biblical) 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.
Translations

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

  1. ^ Goldberg, A. S. (1964) Econometric Theory, New York: John Wiley & Sons
  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

Anagrams

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Τωβίτ (Tōbít), from Hebrew טוֹבִי (tovi, literally “my good”).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈtobit/ [ˈt̪o.bɪt̪̚]
  • Rhymes: -obit
  • Syllabification: To‧bit

Proper noun

Tobit

  1. (Catholicism) Tobit

Further reading

Swedish

Proper noun

Tobit c (genitive Tobits)

  1. Tobit (biblical book and character)

See also

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