Re: Cauchit function

From: "Anon." <bob.ohara@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 08:12:56 +0300

Ray Koopman wrote:

On Jul 26, 11:26 am, lf <ll...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Cauchit is inverse cumulative distribution function for Cauchy
distribution. Why is it called Cauchit?

I suspect the original "__it" was the inverse normal, or "probit",
as a contraction/acronym of "probability integral transformation".

Then the inverse logistic was called "logit" (lo-jit, not log-it).

So how could the inverse Cauchy be anything other than "Cauchit"?

Ah, when you couch it in those terms....

Bob

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