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Comment by ninja3925

3 months ago

This seems to be incorrect. The correct way to combine measurements with various degree of precision is to use the inverse variance weighting law

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kgwgk  3 months ago

Unless I’m missing something that’s exactly what is proposed:

t_i Var [X_i]] = t_j Var [X_j]

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