Topic summary
Log-odds
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Logit.
History
Log odds was used extensively by Charles Sanders Peirce in the late 19th century. G. A. Barnard in 1949 coined the commonly used term log-odds; the log-odds of an event is the logit of the probability of the event. Barnard also coined the term lods as an abstract form of "log-odds", but suggested that "in practice the term 'odds' should normally be used, since this is more familiar in everyday life".