Methods for Numerical Differentiation

Abstract

Divided differences, Berstein polynomials, moving polynomial arc, spline approximation, regularization, and autoregressive procedures for estimating derivative of a tabular function are compared and their common features as well as differences are discussed. It is shown that these methods can be arranged in a sequence of increasing refinement.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1984
Accession Number
ADA145058

Entities

People

  • C. Masaitis

Organizations

  • Ballistic Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Analytic Functions
  • Army
  • Army Training
  • Artillery
  • Calculus Of Variations
  • Data Analysis
  • Differential Equations
  • Education
  • Equations
  • Errors
  • Monotone Functions
  • New York
  • Observation
  • Polynomials
  • Sequences
  • Test And Evaluation

Readers

  • Approximation Theory.
  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)