What is the Difference Between Logit and Logistic Regression?

Logit and logistic regression are the same thing. However, they actually relate to generalized linear models. In a generalized linear model, you have some features $x$ , parameters $\beta$ , response $y$ , and link function $g$ . that relates $E(y)$ to $x$ and $\beta$ . The relationship is as follows:

(1) $\begin{align*} g(E(y))&=\beta^T x \end{align*}$

One choice of $g$ is the logit function $\log\frac{x}{1-x}$ . Its inverse, which is an activation function, is the logistic function $\frac{1}{1+\exp(-x)}$ . Thus logit regression is simply the GLM when describing it in terms of its link function, and logistic regression describes the GLM in terms of its activation function.

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Would it be possible to expand upon this?
For example, when would it be more appropriate to use the logistic function instead of the logit function?
Also, what does T represent?

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