.TH FDERIV 3M
.SH NAME
fderiv
.SH DESCRIPTION
subroutine fderiv.f (non-analytical)

source
  Bevington, page 242.

purpose
  evaluate derivatives of function for least-squares search
    for arbitrary function given by functn

usage
  call fderiv (x, i, a, deltaa, nterms, deriv)

description of parameters
  x      - array of data points for independent variable
  i      - index of data points
  a      - array of parameters
  deltaa - array of parameter increments
  nterms - number of parameters
  deriv  - derivatives of function

subroutines and function subprograms required
  functn (x, i, a)
    evaluates the fitting function for the ith term