The secant method - University of British Columbia The secant method is a variant of Newton’s method that avoids the use of the derivative of f (x) — which can be very helpful when dealing with the derivative is not easy
Engineering at Alberta Courses » Secant Method The secant method is an alternative to the Newton-Raphson method by replacing the derivative with its finite-difference approximation The secant method thus does not require the use of derivatives especially when is not explicitly defined