# statsmodels.tools.numdiff.approx_hess1¶

statsmodels.tools.numdiff.approx_hess1(x, f, epsilon=None, args=(), kwargs={}, return_grad=False)[source]

Calculate Hessian with finite difference derivative approximation

Parameters: x (array_like) – value at which function derivative is evaluated f (function) – function of one array f(x, *args, **kwargs) epsilon (float or array-like, optional) – Stepsize used, if None, then stepsize is automatically chosen according to EPS**(1/3)*x. args (tuple) – Arguments for function f. kwargs (dict) – Keyword arguments for function f. return_grad (bool) – Whether or not to also return the gradient hess (ndarray) – array of partial second derivatives, Hessian grad (nparray) – Gradient if return_grad == True

Notes

Equation (7) in Ridout. Computes the Hessian as:

1/(d_j*d_k) * ((f(x + d[j]*e[j] + d[k]*e[k]) - f(x + d[j]*e[j])))


where e[j] is a vector with element j == 1 and the rest are zero and d[i] is epsilon[i].

References

Ridout, M.S. (2009) Statistical applications of the complex-step method
of numerical differentiation. The American Statistician, 63, 66-74