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Thesigmoidfunction,alsocalledthesigmoidalcurve(vonSeggern2007,p.148)orlogisticfunction,isthefunction
(1)

Ithasderivative
(2)
(3)
(4)

andindefiniteintegral
(5)
(6)
IthasMaclaurinseries
(7)

(8)

(9)
where

isanEulerpolynomialand

Ithasaninflectionpointat

isaBernoullinumber.

,where
(10)

Itisalsothesolutiontotheordinarydifferentialequation
(11)

withinitialcondition

SEEALSO:

EinsteinFunctions,ExponentialFunction,ExponentialRamp,HeavisideStepFunction,LogisticDistribution,Logistic
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REFERENCES:
vonSeggern,D.CRCStandardCurvesandSurfaceswithMathematics,2nded.BocaRaton,FL:CRCPress,2007.

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