Some properties of the Blumberg's hyper-log-logistic curve

Abstract

The paper considers the sigmoid function definedthrough the hyper-log-logistic model introduced by Blumberg. We study the Hausdorff distance of this sigmoid to the Heaviside function, which characterises the shape of switching from 0 to 1. Estimates of the Hausdorff distance in terms of the intrinsic growth rate are derived. We construct a family of recurrence generated sigmoidal functions based on the hyper-log-logistic function. Numerical illustrations are provided.