4. Topics guides¶
This section explains and analyses some key concepts in numdifftools. It’s less concerned with explaining how to do things than with helping you understand how it works.
- 4.1. Introduction derivative estimation
- 4.2. Numerical differentiation of a general function of one variable
- 4.3. Unequally spaced finite difference rules
- 4.4. Odd and even transformations of a function
- 4.5. Complex step derivative
- 4.6. High order derivative
- 4.7. Richardson extrapolation methodology applied to derivative estimation
- 4.8. Multiple term Richardson extrapolants
- 4.9. Uncertainty estimates for Derivative