Numerical Differentiation - UC Santa Barbara
www.mrl.ucsb.eduNumerical Differentiation The problem of numerical differentiation is: • Given some discrete numerical data for a function y(x), develop a numerical approximation for the derivative of the function y’(x) We shall see that the solution to this problem is closely related to curve fitting regardless of whether the data is smooth or noisy
5 Numerical Differentiation
www2.math.umd.edu › lecture-notes › differentiation-chapexample, a more accurate approximation for the first derivative that is based on the values of the function at the points f(x−h) and f(x+h) is the centered differencing formula f0(x) ≈ f(x+h)−f(x−h) 2h. (5.4) Let’s verify that this is indeed a more accurate formula than (5.1). Taylor expansions of the terms on the right-hand-side of ...