Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of statistical and mathematical tables
- Preface
- PART I BASIC NUMERICAL TECHNIQUES
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Errors, mistakes and the arrangement of work
- 3 The real roots of non-linear equations
- 4 Simple methods for smoothing crude data
- 5 The area under a curve
- 6 Finite differences, interpolation and numerical differentiation
- 7 Some other numerical techniques
- PART II BASIC STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES
- PART III THE METHOD OF LEAST SQUARES
- Appendix
- References
- Author index
- Subject index
6 - Finite differences, interpolation and numerical differentiation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of statistical and mathematical tables
- Preface
- PART I BASIC NUMERICAL TECHNIQUES
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Errors, mistakes and the arrangement of work
- 3 The real roots of non-linear equations
- 4 Simple methods for smoothing crude data
- 5 The area under a curve
- 6 Finite differences, interpolation and numerical differentiation
- 7 Some other numerical techniques
- PART II BASIC STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES
- PART III THE METHOD OF LEAST SQUARES
- Appendix
- References
- Author index
- Subject index
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- A Handbook of Numerical and Statistical TechniquesWith Examples Mainly from the Life Sciences, pp. 44 - 59Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1977