Taylor approximations (under construction)
Summary
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Notes
This concept is still under construction.
Context
This concept has the prerequisites:
- higher-order partial derivatives (Second-order Taylor approximations involve second derivatives.)
- matrix transpose (The matrix of second derivatives is symmetric.)
See also
- Some uses of Taylor approximations:
- Characterizing optimal solutions to optimization problems
- The delta method for approximating the error of a statistical estimator
- Newton-Rhapson , a convex optimization algorithm