English

Proper noun

Tobit

1. A book of the Catholic version of the Old Testament, considered apocryphal by Protestants.
2. (rare) A male given name.
   • 1611, Bible (KJV), Tobit 1:3::

     I Tobit have walked all the days of my life in the ways of truth and justice, and I did many almsdeeds to my brethren, and my nation, who came with me to Nineve, into the land of the Assyrians.

Etymology 2

Coined by A. S. Goldberg in 1964^[1] as these type of models were first proposed by James Tobin ^[2] and are similar to probit models.

Noun

Tobit ‎(uncountable)

1. (statistics) a model where the dependent variable is censored.

References

1. ↑ Goldberg, A. S. (1964) Econometric Theory, John Wiley & Sons
2. ↑ Tobin, James (1958), “Estimation of relationships for limited dependent variables”, in Econometrica, volume 26, issue 1, The Econometric Society, DOI:10.2307/1907382, pages 24–36