Sigmoid curve/ S curve
Origin: Lat. curvus
A curve with a rapid rate of growth that then declines. This produces a curve that appears as an S, due to a slow start, rapid growth, then leveling. Many biological systems follow this structure. As well as product life cycles and societal facts. The same information is presented in the Gaussian distribution bell shaped curve; they are different ways of looking at the same thing. Also called Sigmoidal curve.
Spanish: Curva de Sigmoid
Sources and references
- Arizona education futures.- Glossary definitions of selected futures termscited 14 times
- Gutierrez, Miguel Angel. “Futures studies glossary.”cited 43 times
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