Thank you very much. That's very kind from you.
Cook's distance is often used, to determine the influancial observation in Linear regression.
but, in the mathematical functions, the relationship between the dependant variable and the independant variables are not usually linear.
Please, could you illustrate a demontration for Cook's distance on the function below :
http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/imlug/66845/HTML/default/viewer.htm#imlug_nonlinearoptexpls_sect007.htm
In this case, you do not use the Jacobian and Hessian Matrix, in order to determine , if the extreme point is a Minimum, a Maximum or a saddle point
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