Divided differences

Divided Differences of Higher Order and Higher-Order Interpolation The first-order divided difference f[xo, i] was defined previously. Divided differences of second and higher order are defined iteratively by... 

If the accuracy afforded by a linear approximation is inadequate, a generally more accurate result may be based upon the assumption thedfix) may be approximated by a polynomial of degree 2 or higher over certain ranges. This assumption leads to Newtons fundamental interpolation formula with divided differences... 

It will now be shown that a newtonian expansion can be obtained, with functionals that correspond to divided differences. First the set linear combination of > > nd where... 

To add, subtract, multiply or divide different metric units, first convert all the units to the same denomination. For example, to subtract 54 mg from 0.28 g, solve as 280 mg - 54 mg = 226 mg. 

The most commonly used techniques for estimating trees for sequences may be grouped into three categories (1) distance methods, (2) maximum parsimony, and (3) maximum likelihood based methods. There are other methods but they are not widely used. Further, each of these categories covers many variations and even distinct methods with different properties and assumptions. These methods have often been divided different ways (different from the three categories here) such as cladistic versus phenetic, character-based versus non-character-based, method-based versus criterion-based, and others. These divisions may merely reflect particular predjudices by the person making them and can be artificial. 

The subroutine between lines 4792 - 4806 provides divided difference approximation of the appropriate segment of the Jacobian matrix, stored in the array G(NY,NP). In some applications the efficiency of the minimization can be considerably increased replacing this general purpose routine by analytical derivatives for the particular model. In that case, however, Y(NY) should be also updated here. 

The classical Lagrange formula is not efficient numerically. One can derive more efficient, but otherwise naturally equivalent interpolation formulas by introducing finite differences. The first order divided differences are defined by... 

These partial derivatives provide a lot of information (ref. 10). They show how parameter perturbations (e.g., uncertainties in parameter values) affect the solution. Identifying the unimportant parameters the analysis may help to simplify the model. Sensitivities are also needed by efficient parameter estimation procedures of the Gauss - Newton type. Since the solution y(t,p) is rarely available in analytic form, calculation of the coefficients Sj(t,p) is not easy. The simplest method is to perturb the parameter pj, solve the differential equation with the modified parameter set and estimate the partial derivatives by divided differences. This "brute force" approach is not only time consuming (i.e., one has to solve np+1 sets of ny differential equations), but may be rather unreliable due to the roundoff errors. A much better approach is solving the sensitivity equations... 

The input data structure is very similar to the one in the module 1445. Two user routines are to be supplied. The first one starts at line 900 and evaluates the right hand sides of the differential equations. The second routine, starting at line 800, serves for computing the initial conditions at the current estimates of the parameters. If the initial estimates are parameter independent (we know them exactly), then this routine simply puts the known values into the variables YI(1),. .., YI(NY). The required partial derivatives are generated using divided differences approximation. In order to ease the use of the module a very simple example is considered here. 

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Divided Differences of Higher Order and Higher-Order... 

Various integration methods were tested on the dynamic model equations. They included an implicit iterative multistep method, an implicit Euler/modified Euler method, an implicit midpoint averaging method, and a modified divided difference form of the variable-order/variable-step Adams PECE formulas with local extrapolation. However, the best integrator for our system of equations turned out to be the variable-step fifth-order Runge-Kutta-Fehlberg method. This explicit method was used for all of the calculations presented here. 

This result is used by GREGPLUS for those parameters that are marked with nonzero DEL(r) values to request divided-difference computations of parametric sensitivities. The same expression is used in the multiresponse levels of GREGPLUS, where negative values of S(6) can occur. 

The calculation of UPRIME will involve the derivative (9/ /5t). 0 if any algebraic equation in the set (B.l-la) has a term depending explicitly on t. In this case, provide a nonzero At in Rwork(44) DDAPLUS will then evaluate dfA/dt)y 0 as a divided difference. Use Rwork(44)=0 otherwise. 

The DDAPLUS sensitivity algorithm uses the matrix function B t) defined in Eqs. (B.l-4a) and (B.l-4b). This function will be approximated by divided differences in DDAPLUS. unless the user sets Info(14) = l and provides the derivatives djijdBj with respect to one or more parameters in Subroutine Bsub. Set Info(14)=0 if you want DDAPLUS to approximate B(t) by differencing. 

When the temperature of a double liquid mixure is gradually raised, it may happen that the composition and the various properties of the two lay s into which it is divided differ less and less when the temperature reaches a certain valve 0 the two layers become identical in all respects. 

If we have an abscissa associated with the ordinate values in the sequence, it is sensible to divide the first differences of the ordinates by the first differences of the abscissae, to give the mean slope of the chords joining the data points represented by the values in the two sequences. Such a ratio is called the divided difference. 

The significance of this is that the derivative of a function is defined as the limit of the divided difference of samples as the gaps in abscissa tend to zero. 

If the data is indeed sampled at regular intervals from a polynomial of degree d, then the dth divided difference, which is a constant sequence, has as the value of each element the value of the dth derivative. 

Central Divided Differences (left) at unit intervals, (right) at intervals of 2. The values of divided differences are no longer scaled by the sampling density. 

The appropriate denominators are straightforward to see in the uniform case, where we can say that the divided differences come half-way between the original values, and so we have well-defined abscissae associated with the difference values, and it is clear what is meant by saying that the second divided differences are divided by the difference in abscissa of the first divided differences. In the non-uniform context the convention often used is that the second divided differences are the differences of the first divided differences divided by half of the total width of the set of values taking part in the divided difference. In the uniform subdivision context we do not need that complication. 

The first differences on both left and right of x = 0 tend to zero, but the first divided differences on both sides diverge. 

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