The existence of optimal parameters of the generalized logistic function

DOI10.1016/S0096-3003(95)00251-0MaRDI QIDQ1918318zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 5 January 1997

Published in Applied Mathematics and Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/s0096-3003(95)00251-0

generalized logistic function generalized logistic regression optimal parameters

Point estimation (62F10) General nonlinear regression (62J02) Probabilistic methods, stochastic differential equations (65C99) Computation of special functions and constants, construction of tables (65D20)

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The authors consider the generalized logistic function \[ f(t)= {A\over (1+ b\exp\{- c\gamma t\})^{1/\gamma}},\quad A, b, c, \gamma> 0. \] Let us have available the data \((p_i, t_i, f_i)\), \(i= 1,\dots, m\), where \(p_i\) are some positive weights, \(t_1<\cdots< t_m\) and \(f_i> 0\). The authors try to respond to the following question: Does there exist a pair of numbers \((b^*, c^*)\in {\mathcal B}\) such that \[ F(b^*, c^*)= \inf_{(b, c)\in {\mathcal B}} F(b, c), \] where \({\mathcal B}= \{(b, c)\in \mathbb{R}^2\mid b> 0, c> 0\}\) and \[ F(b, c)= {1\over 2} \sum^m_{i= 1} p_i\Biggl[f(i)- {A\over (1+ b\exp \{- c\gamma t\})^{1/\gamma}}{\Biggr]^2}. \] The above problem does not always have a solution. The authors show the existence of the minimum of the functional \(F\) under conditions which are considerably weaker than those given earlier for the same problem.

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