Tobit

Meanings

Proper Noun

• A book of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canon of the Old Testament, considered apocryphal by Protestants.
• A male given name from Hebrew.

Noun

• a model where the dependent variable is censored.

Origin

• From the Ancient Greek Τωβίτ, from Hebrew טוֹבִּי.
• Coined by A. S. Goldberg in 1964 as these type of models were first proposed by James Tobin and are similar to probit models.