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Tobit.

A book of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canon of the Old Testament, considered apocryphal by Protestants.

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  1. A book of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canon of the Old Testament, considered apocryphal by Protestants.

  2. A male given name from Hebrew.

    rare
Where this word comes from

From the Ancient Greek Τωβίτ (Tōbít), from Hebrew טוֹבִי (tovi, literally “my good”).

noun
  1. a model where the dependent variable is censored.

    uncountable
Where this word comes from

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

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