A convergence improvement factor and higher-order methods for solving nonlinear equations (Q419546)

The following iterative scheme for the equation \(f(x) = 0\) is studied: \[ z_n = \phi _p (x_n ),\quad x_{n + 1} = z_n - h(\mu _n )\frac{f(z_n )}{{f}'(x_n )}, \] where \(\mu _n = \frac{f(y_n )}{f(x_n )}\), \(y_n = x_n - \frac{f(x_n )}{{f}'(x_n )}\), \(\phi _p ( \cdot )\) is an arbitrary iteration with convergence order \(p,\) and \(h( \cdot )\) is a sufficiently smooth function.