July 2017
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The sigmoid function is very easy to understand in terms of its mathematical concepts. Its mathematical formula is shown in Figure 9.33:

As you can see in Figure 9.33, the sigmoid function will take the given equation, take a number, and squash this number in the range of zero and one. It produces an s-shaped curve.
This function is the first one to be used in ANN as an activation function because it could be interpreted as the firing rate of neuron--zero means no firing and one is fully saturated firing. When ...
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