简介:Considersolvinganoverdeterminedsystemoflinearalgebraicequationsbyboththeleastsquaresmethod(LS)andthetotalleastsquaresmethod(TLS).Extensivepublishedcomputationalevidenceshowsthatwhentheoriginalsystemisconsistent.oneoftenobtainsmoreaccuratesolutionsbyusingtheTLSmethodratherthantheLSmethod.ThesenumericalobservationscontrastwithexistinganalyticperturbationtheoriesfortheLSandTLSmethodswhichshowthattheupperboundsfortheLSsolutionarealwayssmallerthanthecorrespondingupperboundsfortheTLSsolutions.InthispaperwederiveanewupperboundfortheTLSsolutionandindicatewhentheTLSmethodcanbemoreaccuratethantheLSmethod.Manyappliedproblemsinsignalprocessingleadtooverdeterminedsystemsoflinearequationswherethematrixandrighthandsidearedeterminedbytheexperimentalobservations(usuallyintheformofalimeseries).Itoftenhappensthatasthenumberofcolumnsofthematrixbecomeslarger,thera