statsmodels.tools.numdiff.approx_hess1(x, f, epsilon=None, args=(), kwargs={}, return_grad=False)
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Calculate Hessian with finite difference derivative approximation
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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].
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