How to combine independent data sets for the same quantity

DOI10.1063/1.3593373MaRDI QIDQ5264317zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Theodore P. Hill, Jack C. Miller

Publication date 27 July 2015

Published in Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1005.4978, https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/rgp_rsr/87

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Coding theorems (Shannon theory) (94A24)

Abstract: This paper describes a recent mathematical method called conflation for consolidating data from independent experiments that are designed to measure the same quantity, such as Planck's constant or the mass of the top quark. Conflation is easy to calculate and visualize, and minimizes the maximum loss in Shannon information in consolidating several independent distributions into a single distribution. In order to benefit the experimentalist with a much more transparent presentation than the previous mathematical treatise, the main basic properties of conflation are derived in the special case of normal (Gaussian) data. Included are examples of applications to real data from measurements of the fundamental physical constants and from measurements in high energy physics, and the conflation operation is generalized to weighted conflation for situations when the underlying experiments are not uniformly reliable.

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• Conflations of probability distributions
• Linear Models in Statistics

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