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Natural Parameter to Mean

Problem

Convert the natural parameter of a Bernoulli distribution to its mean:

p = 1 / (1 + exp(-eta))

The logistic sigmoid maps the real line to the interval (0, 1).

Hint

eta = 0 corresponds to a fair coin.

Test cases

case 1
in: [0]
expected: 0.5
case 2
in: [1]
expected: 0.7310585786300049
case 3
in: [-2]
expected: 0.11920292202211755
case 4
in: [5]
expected: 0.9933071490757153
Starter codePython
import math
def bernoulli_natural_to_mean(eta):
    # Your code here
    pass

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