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A book of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canon of the Old Testament, considered apocryphal by Protestants.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biblical, lifestyle, religion
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name
A male given name from Hebrew.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
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noun
a model where the dependent variable is censored.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: mathematics, sciences, statistics
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noun
an Apocryphal book that was a popular novel for several centuries
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Book of Tobit
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Broader terms: book
History
From the Ancient Greek Τωβίτ (Tōbít), from Hebrew טוֹבִי (tovi, literally “my good”).
Coined by A. S. Goldberg in 1964 as these type of models were first proposed by James Tobin and are similar to probit models.
Across languages
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