A weighted variant family of Newton's method with accelerated third-order convergence (Q884545)

A family of iterative method that generalizes the classical Newton-Raphson method, for solving nonlinear equations is derived. Using additional values of the first derivative, the new methods achieve third order convergence. The authors replace the first derivative of the function of the left hand side of the equation by the arithmetic mean, respectively by the harmonic mean of the first derivative in two points. More generally, the first derivative is replaced by a weighted mean to obtain a new family of iterative methods. The numerical experiments show that only the new method obtained for odd values of the parameter are competitive with Newton's method.