The references include
Banks, R.B. 1994. Growth and Diffusion Phenomena: Mathematical
Frameworks and Applications. Berlin: Springer.
Cramer, J.S. 2004. The early origins of the logit model. Studies in
History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 35:
613--626.
Kingsland, S.E. 1995. Modeling Nature: Episodes in the History of
Population Ecology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Wilson, E.B. 1925. The logistic or autocatalytic grid. Proceedings,
National Academy of Sciences 11: 451--456.
The last seems freely available on the internet.
Wilson proposed what we would now call logit graph paper.
Nick
Richard Gibson
Fascinating! Is there some pre reading?
>>> Nick Cox <[email protected]> 27/02/2008 22:17 >>>
It is interesting (to me anyway) that the conditioned reflex to "logit"
among many analysts
is that the root idea is using what we now call the logit function as a
link function for binary
responses. That approach goes back at least as far as 1941.
Extensions e.g. to responses with multiple outcomes are then regarded as
extra tricks building on that.
However, the logit idea has a much longer history for modelling growth
or decay in demography,
ecology, physiology, chemistry etc. for problems with essentially
continuous responses.
The point is elaborated in a graphical context in a note forthcoming in
Stata Journal 8(1).
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