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+## Copyright (C) 2011 Olaf Till <olaf.till@uni-jena.de>
+##
+## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+## it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+## (at your option) any later version.
+##
+## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+## but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+## GNU General Public License for more details.
+##
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+## along with this program; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+function hook = __covd_wls__ (hook)
+
+ m = hook.nm;
+ n = hook.np;
+
+ if (m <= n)
+ error ("guessing covariance-matrix of residuals for weighted least squares requires at least one more residual than free parameters");
+ endif
+
+ w = hook.weights(:);
+ res = hook.residuals(:);
+
+ w2 = w .^ 2;
+
+ hook.covd = diag (res.' * diag (w2) * res / (m - n) ./ w2);
+
+endfunction