Sigmoid function and its derivatives
Calculates the sigmoid function and its derivatives.
sigmoid(y, deriv = FALSE)
y |
a numeric vector. |
deriv |
if |
If deriv==FALSE
, it returns a numeric vector equal to 1/(1+exp(-x))
. If
deriv==TRUE
it returns a list where the slot $D0
contains 1/(1+exp(-x))
,
while $D1
, $D2
and $D3
contain its first three derivatives.
Matteo Fasiolo <matteo.fasiolo@gmail.com>.
library(qgam) set.seed(90) h <- 1e-6 p <- rnorm(1e4, 0, 1e6) sigmoid(p[1:50]) - 1/(1+exp(-p[1:50])) ##### Testing sigmoid derivatives e1 <- abs((sigmoid(p+h) - sigmoid(p-h)) / (2*h) - sigmoid(p, TRUE)[["D1"]]) / (2*h) e2 <- abs((sigmoid(p+h, TRUE)$D1 - sigmoid(p-h, TRUE)$D1) / (2*h) - sigmoid(p, TRUE)[["D2"]]) / (2*h) e3 <- abs((sigmoid(p+h, TRUE)$D2 - sigmoid(p-h, TRUE)$D2) / (2*h) - sigmoid(p, TRUE)[["D3"]]) / (2*h) if( any(c(e1, e2, e3) > 1) ) stop("Sigmoid derivatives are not estimated accurately")
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