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Background Rescaling

In background rescaling mode, PSS's model is (2) and (3) becomes,

 

This is minimised to find both and at each using the simultaneous conditions

The minimum is found iteratively using the second order scheme,

where denotes differentiation with respect to X.



Asterix
Tue Oct 7 12:03:17 BST 1997