The light-time effect method, its limitations and applications were studied. A powerful combined method of simultaneous analysis of the O-C diagrams and astrometric orbit in triple eclipsing-astrometric binaries was presented.
Eleven eclipsing systems were studied in detail according to their O-C diagrams (RY Aqr, BF CMi, RW Cap, TY Cap, SS Cet, RR Dra, TY Del, TZ Eri, RV Per, UZ Sge, and BO Vul)