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- One great advantage of the
or maximum likelihood
problem is that to calculate the second derivative of the function to
be minimized only requires the first derivative of the
theoretical functions.
- First consider this in the case of
:
- where
is experimental measurement, 
is error, and
is theory---a function of n parameters.
- We take, without loss of generality, n=1 and one parameter
in the following:
Geoffrey Fox, Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University, gcf@npac.syr.edu