A stopping criterion for the iterative solution of an overdetermined system of linear algebraic equations

For an overdetermined system of linear algebraic equations, systems obtained by introducing independent random errors into the original right-hand side are examined. Under certain assumptions on how these random variables are distributed, a practical stopping criterion is proposed for an iterative process that minimizes the sum of the squares of the residuals for the above systems. Numerical results demonstrating the efficiency of this criterion for some ill-conditioned problems are presented.