Fwiw, I read a number of Smil’s books, and it was my impression that he strongly expressed that same opinion about sigmoids, and the mentioned example might have been precisely an attempt to illustrate how you can show everything with fitting the right sigmoid. (But it’s been awhile since I read his books)
Fwiw, I read a number of Smil’s books, and it was my impression that he strongly expressed that same opinion about sigmoids, and the mentioned example might have been precisely an attempt to illustrate how you can show everything with fitting the right sigmoid. (But it’s been awhile since I read his books)