A plane section can be used to visualize the partial derivative of a function with respect to one of its arguments, as shown. Suppose . In taking the partial derivative of with respect to , one can take a plane section of the function at a fixed value of to plot the level curve of solely against ; then the partial derivative with respect to is the slope of the resulting two-dimensional graph.

Applications

A plane section of a probability density function of two random variables

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