The problem is that whatever one I will find the most desirable, other people will continue using the methods they are good at. And I will have to somehow compare x(A)1, x(B)32 and x(C)3...
And this is a relatively straightforward situation, things are often much less clear in environmental science, already on the methodology level.
The problem is that whatever one I will find the most desirable, other people will continue using the methods they are good at. And I will have to somehow compare x(A)1, x(B)32 and x(C)3...
I don't really understand the problem. Yes, maybe you can't control them and get everyone onto the same method page. But I've already explained how you deal with that, given you the relevant keywords to search for like 'measurement error', and also given you example R code implementing several approaches.
They all take the basic approach of treating it as data/measure...
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