2011-04-05
The method has been successfully used to reprocess the data of the
Troitsk-nu-mass experiment.
A publication is coming soon.
2006
The method of quasi-optimal weights (F.V.Tkachov,
2000;
2006)
is a systematic development of Pearson's method of moments (1894)
in the light of modern functional-analytic logic. It
provides
a comprehensive, asymptotically optimal, transparent and flexible alternative to
the least squares and maximum likelihood methods. The optimality holds for a
general non-linear, non-gaussian case.
The main publication is Transcending The Least Squares (2006). Note the cool "optimized least squares" formulae.