Meaning

2 senses
  1. A unit, derived from a standard normal distribution, used in measuring the responses to doses.

  2. The probit function, the inverse of the standard normal cumulative distribution function.

Examples

1 sentences
  1. Probit statistical models can be used for binary variables.

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Origin

Blend of probability + unit. Coined by American statistician Chester Ittner Bliss in 1934:

Blend of probability + unit. Coined by American statistician Chester Ittner Bliss in 1934: “These arbitrary probability units have been termed ‘probits’…”

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Forms

plural: probits
Singularprobit
Pluralprobits

regular

Word family

2 related words
RelatedbitA2logit

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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