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The weighted total least-squares solution (WTLSS) is presented for an errors-in-variables model with fairly general variance–covariance matrices. In particular, the observations can be heteroscedastic and correlated, but the variance–covariance matrix of the dependent variables needs to have a certain block structure. An algorithm for the computation of the WTLSS is presented and applied to a straight-line fit problem where the data have been observed with different precision, and to a multiple regression problem from recently published climate change research.
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Schaffrin, B., Wieser, A. On weighted total least-squares adjustment for linear regression. J Geod 82, 415–421 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-007-0190-9
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