The Origins of Logistic Regression

TL;DR — A history of the logistic function and logit model, from Verhulst’s population studies in the 1830s to modern econometrics.

How much weight it carries: A Tinbergen Institute discussion paper; good scholarship on the history of a method.

Where this came from

• Will Manidis’s “most underrated PDF” thread, July 2023 — routing record: The Most Underrated PDF on the Internet (July 2023)

16 pages. A copy is archived locally against link rot; the header links the original source.