which is nonsingular given sufficient conditions on the choice of $\vec{x}_{n+i}$.
Let $X =\begin{bmatrix}\vec{x}_{n+1}&\dots&\vec{x}_{n+d}\end{bmatrix}-\vec{x}_n$ and $F =\begin{bmatrix}\fxi{n+1}&\dots&\fxi{n+d}\end{bmatrix}-\fxi{n}$, then
$$\hat{J}^{-1}= X F^{-1}.$$
Combining this with equations (\ref{eq:quasiNewton}) and (\ref{eq:Newtondirection}) gives the quasi-Newton method
\begin{equation}
\hat{\vec{x}}_{n+1} = \vec{x}_n - X F^{-1}\fxi{n}.
\end{equation}
The vector $F^{-1}\fxi{n}$ may be found elementwise by Cramer's rule:
where one must expand the determinant along the top row to maintain the correct dimensions.
Suppose, for whatever reason, that we do not have enough values of $\fxi{n+i}$ to fully determine $\hat{J}$.
That is, suppose $F$ and $X$ have $d$ rows but only $k$ columns, and denote these submatrices by $F_k$ and $X_k$.
Rather than solve $\hat{J}\vec{u}_n =\fxi{n}$ we can make a further approximation by solving $A^\top\hat{J}\vec{u}_n = A^\top\fxi{n}$ for some matrix $A$ with the same dimension as $F_k$.
This has as its solution $\vec{u}_n = X_k (A^\top F_k)^{-1} A^\top\fxi{n}$.
It is clear that the quasi-Newton method that results from this may be written as
Let $\vec{r}(\vec{x}_i)=\vec{x}_{i+1}-\vec{x}_i$ be the residual function.
Then MPE may be expressed as equation (\ref{eq:uqn}) with $\fxi{i}=\vec{r}(\vec{x}_i)$ and $\vec{v}_i =\vec{r}(\vec{x}_{n+i-1})$.
RRE and MMPE may also be expressed as such, using $\vec{v}_i =\vec{r}(\vec{x}_{n+i})-\vec{r}(\vec{x}_{n+i-1})$ and $\vec{v}_i$ some fixed vector independent of $\vec{r}(\vec{x})$, respectively.