At Valparaiso University, the male to female student ratio is far above the national average of about 40:60 with a student body that is equally balanced. It is ranked at #218 in male to female diversity nationwide. The undergraduate population is comprised of 1,572 males and 1,679 females.
This shape is called a cuboid, and it is an extremely common shape to see in the world around us. This is demonstrated in the following picture of a building, a book, and an ice cream sandwich. All of these objects are cuboid shapes.
Often, sigmoid function refers to the special case of the logistic function shown in the first figure and defined by the formula () = + â = +. Other examples of similar shapes include the Gompertz curve (used in modeling systems that saturate at large values of x) and the ogee curve (used in the spillway of some dams).