Efroymsen's method of checking tolerance in matrix inversion is a popular technique to avoid inverting singular and nearly singular covariance matrices. Recently Berk showed that the Efroymsen tolerance check is theoretically unsatisfactory. A simple modification of the Efroymsen tolerance check is given here that provides a proper tolerance test.
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James W. Frane (1977) studied this question.