UPWEI                                                      UPWEI Ver. 2000.03.30
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       Procedure for weights update.

      I. Release  UPWEI 1.4  of 30-MAR-2000
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    Program  UPWEI  is the part of SOLVE software for geodetic VLBI
  data analysis. UPWEI calculates corrections to weights which being 
  quadratically added to the uncertainties of the observables 
  obtained from correlator modify a priori weights by such a way 
  that the ratio of weighted sum of post-fit residuals (chi-square) 
  to its mathematical expectation becomes to be near to unity. 
  Weights to be applied in solving equations of conditions may be 
  presented in such a form: 

              wgt = 1/sqrt ( sigma_apr**2 + rewgt**2 )

  where sigma_apr is uncertainty of the observable (or ionosphere 
  free linear combination of observables) and rewgt is the quantity
  to be sought. Two modes of calculation of those quantities is 
  supported: global mode and baseline mode. Rewgt is the same for 
  all used observations in global mode. Reweight constant rewgt(ibl)
  under condition that the ratio of weighted sum of post-fit 
  residuals to its mathematical expectation over observations of the
  baseline is found separately for each baseline in 'baseline mode' 
  of calculation. 

    Reweight correctios are calculated iteratively.
    The way of calulation at each iuteration is the following:
      0) If no solution (with current weights) is available solution 
         is prodiced, residuals are calculated and their statistcs.
      1) Corrections to weights are calculated using the following
         expression:

               chisq_i -  [ n_i - summa ( a_i(T)*V*a_i * w_i**2 ) ]
         q_i = ---------------------------------------------------
               summa ( w_i**2 ) - summa ( a_i(T)*V*a_i * w_i**4 ) 
         
         IF ( q >= 0 ) THEN
              rwt_i =   sqrt (  q_i )
	   ELSE
              rwt_i = - sqrt ( -q_i )
         END IF

         Where 
           a) chisq_i -- chi-square over observations of the 
                         i-th baseline;
           b) n_i     -- the number of obvservatoins at the i-th 
                         baseline;
           c) a_i     -- i-th equation of conditions;
           d) V       -- covariance matrix;
           e) w_i     -- weight of the i-th observation;

	 Summimg is done over all used observations of the i-th 
         baseline in baseline mode and over all uysed observation in
         global mode.

      2) New baseline-dependent corrected weights are strored, weights
         for each observation are updated in according with new
         corrections, OBSHLD, OBSBAS objects are updated to keep new
         weights.

      3) New solution with new weights is produced. Residuals and their
         statistics are calculated anew. Chi/ndg is calculated for each
         baseline.

      4) Test: wether new iteration should be done is carried out unless
         the counter of the current iteration reached UPWEI_MAXIT.
         All baselines which
             a) has number of used observations more or equal to the
                specified limit ( constant NEQU_MIN );
             b) has reweight constant applied exceeding the floor;
         tested: does chi/ndg among used observation for this baseline
         differs from unity less than UPWEI_CHITOL constant. If it
         differs from unity more for at least one baseline then new
         iteration is made.

    It is assumed that UPWEI is called from ELIM/MILE what in turn 
  is called from OPTIN in interactive mode. 

    All information printed at the screen is automatically printed 
  in spool file.


      II. Restrictions:
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  1) UPWEI works only in B3D mode.
  2) Not all observation types are supported.


     Further information about ELIM may be found in

  1) SOLVE_HELP_DIR directory file upwei_01.hlp 
     "Description of menu items".

  2) SOLVE_HELP_DIR directory file upwei_02_hlp.ps  
     Petrov, L. "Memo about reweighting" 

  History:

  22-JAN-98   pet  v 0.0  Beginning of developing
  30-JAN-98   pet  v 1.0  Release of the first version.
  28-FEB-98   pet  v 1.1  Added support of phase delay solution types.
                                                                     
  07-APR-99   pet  v 1.2  Forced to save ELIM_VRB variable in the case
                          of failure.                                  
                                                                     
  28-MAR-2000 pet  v 1.3  Added support of EQUMEM_FLAG                 
                                                                     
  29-MAR-2000 pet  v 1.4  Added support of batch mode.                    

   Bug reports and your comments please send to Leonid Petrov 
  (pet@leo.gsfc.nasa.gov)