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partial derivative

[′pär·shəl də′riv·əd·iv]
(mathematics)
A derivative of a function of several variables taken with respect to one variable while holding the others fixed.
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The Fisher information matrix I([GAMMA]) is given by the K x K symmetric matrix whose (u, v)th element is the covariance between uth and vth first partial derivatives of the log-likelihood:
The partial derivatives of the magnetic components (2) in the laboratory system are
The first partial derivative of C3S with respect to f becomes:
After making use of relation (10), it is very easy to show that the partial derivatives of the equilibrium quantities of loans ([L.sub.i]) with respect to parameters [alpha] and r and variables [D.sub.i] and [D.sub.j] have as follows:
The way each of the three functionally relevant parameters E, D, and K depends upon each of the three governing growth-related parameters [alpha], [rho], and [delta] may be quantified by considering the corresponding partial derivatives [partial derivative]E/[partial derivative][alpha], [partial derivative]E/[partial derivative][rho], [partial derivative]E/[partial derivative][delta], [partial derivative]D/[partial derivative][alpha], [partial derivative]D/[partial derivative][rho], [partial derivative]D/[partial derivative][delta], [partial derivative]K/[partial derivative][alpha], [partial derivative]K/[partial derivative][rho], [partial derivative]K/[partial derivative][delta].
The assumption that u [member of] [C.sup.2] enables the examination of partial derivatives signs.
The following partial derivatives obtained from differentiating the functions [F.sub.1] and [F.sub.2] are needed to determine the sign of [absolute value of [J.sub.1]]:
The notation [U.sub.X]k = [[[partial derivative].sup.k]U(X,t)]/[[partial derivative][X.sup.k]] takes care of all possible partial derivatives where k is the highest partial derivatives of U w.
where the partial derivatives within the parentheses are normalized by the Compton radius [r.sub.c].
More formally, the expansion of the preceding determinant in (45) verifies that a symmetric matrix is obtained for [partial derivative][h.sub.i](P,k)/[partial derivative][P.sub.j] due to the commutation of second-order partial derivatives of [P.sub.j]
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