Barry praised the use of a linear method to measure stages of change.
This line of thought can be continued to arrive at various linear multistep methods.
This leads to the family of linear multistep methods.
However, linear multistep methods with an order greater than 2 cannot be A-stable.
An outer estimate of can be determined using linear methods.
Nonlinear control theory studies how to apply existing linear methods to these more general control systems.
These linear or linearized methods are detailed in the article Uncertainty propagation.
Then appropriate linear methods are subsequently applied on the transformed data.
In contrast, the order of A-stable linear multistep methods cannot exceed two.
The linear method arranges data in long parallel tracks that span the length of the tape.