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Thesigmoidfunction,alsocalledthesigmoidalcurve(vonSeggern2007,p.148)orlogisticfunction,isthefunction
(1)
Ithasderivative
(2)
(3)
(4)
andindefiniteintegral
(5)
(6)
IthasMaclaurinseries
(7)
(8)
(9)
where
isanEulerpolynomialand
Ithasaninflectionpointat
isaBernoullinumber.
,where
(10)
Itisalsothesolutiontotheordinarydifferentialequation
(11)
withinitialcondition
SEEALSO:
EinsteinFunctions,ExponentialFunction,ExponentialRamp,HeavisideStepFunction,LogisticDistribution,Logistic
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REFERENCES:
vonSeggern,D.CRCStandardCurvesandSurfaceswithMathematics,2nded.BocaRaton,FL:CRCPress,2007.
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