A method for detecting transmitted data in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) receiver, the method comprising: iteratively calculating symbol estimates by: obtaining input symbol estimates and input symbol variances; calculating error values for the input symbol estimates; refining the input symbol estimates to obtain refined symbol estimates, based on the error values, wherein the refined symbol estimates are used as input symbol estimates for the subsequent iteration of the above calculation, and wherein the refined symbol estimates are used as final symbol estimates when the difference between refined symbol estimates from one iteration to the next is below a threshold change.