Resummation of QED perturbation series by sequence transformations and theprediction of perturbative coefficients

We propose a method for the resummation of divergent perturbative expansion s in quantum electrodynamics and related field theories. The method is base d on a nonlinear sequence transformation and uses as input data only the nu merical values of a finite number of perturbative coefficients. The results obtained in this way are for alternating series superior to those obtained using Fade approximants. The nonlinear sequence transformation fulfills an accuracy-through-order relation and can be used to predict perturbative co efficients. In many cases, these predictions are closer to available analyt ic results than predictions obtained using the Fade method.