A family of recurrence generated sigmoidal functions based on the Verhulst logistic function. Some approximation and modelling aspects
Author(s) -
Nikolay Kyurkchiev
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
biomath communications
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2367-5241
pISSN - 2367-5233
DOI - 10.11145/bmc.2016.12.171
Subject(s) - heaviside step function , sigmoid function , mathematics , logistic function , hausdorff space , function (biology) , construct (python library) , logistic regression , discrete mathematics , pure mathematics , statistics , computer science , artificial intelligence , evolutionary biology , artificial neural network , biology , programming language
In this note we construct a family of recurrence generated sigmoidal logistic functions based on the Verhulst logistic function. We prove estimates for the Hausdorff approximation of the Heaviside step function by means of this family. Numerical examples, illustrating our results are given.
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