Tobit
name, noun
name, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 a model where the dependent variable is censored. uncountable
Proper Noun
- 1 A book of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canon of the Old Testament, considered apocryphal by Protestants.
- 2 A male given name from Hebrew. rare
"I Tobit have walked all the days of my life in the ways of truth and justice, and I did many almsdeeds to my brethren, and my nation, who came with me to Nineve, into the land of the Assyrians."
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More examples"I Tobit have walked all the days of my life in the ways of truth and justice, and I did many almsdeeds to my brethren, and my nation, who came with me to Nineve, into the land of the Assyrians."
Etymology
Etymology 1
From the Ancient Greek Τωβίτ (Tōbít), from Hebrew טוֹבִי (tovi, literally “my good”).
Etymology 2
Coined by A. S. Goldberg in 1964 as these type of models were first proposed by James Tobin and are similar to probit models.
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