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- If we have two experiments that are independent but depend on same
theoretical parameter
, then

- and clearly the combined likelihood is

- i.e., one should multiply likelihoods when combining experiments. We
will apply this in the next section (
) to case when each
Gaussian in
.
Geoffrey Fox, Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University, gcf@npac.syr.edu