A novel numerical technique to obtain an accurate solution to the Thomas-Fermi equation Kourosh Parand, Hossein Yousefi, Mehdi Delkhosh and Amin Ghaderi Eur. Phys. J. Plus, 131 7 (2016) 228 Published online: 06 July 2016 DOI: 10.1140/epjp/i2016-16228-x