Tobit
English
Etymology 1
From the Ancient Greek Τωβίτ (Tōbít), from Hebrew טוֹבִּי (tovi, literally “my good”).
Proper noun
Tobit
- A book of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canon of the Old Testament, considered apocryphal by Protestants.
- (rare) A male given name.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Tobit 1:3::
- 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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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.
References
- Goldberg, A. S. (1964) Econometric Theory, John Wiley & Sons
- Tobin, James (1958), “Estimation of relationships for limited dependent variables”, in Econometrica, volume 26, issue 1, The Econometric Society, DOI:, pages 24–36
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