Thanks Abby, some info on the data:

score   score_SD        death_count     population_size
x1              x1_SD           y1                      corr_weight     
4.3             2.3                     5800            900.000 
5.7             6.1                     250                     11.000.600
..              ..                      ..                      ..

> Op 22 jun. 2020, om 02:02 heeft Abby Spurdle <spurdl...@gmail.com> het 
> volgende geschreven:
> 
> I need to fix my mistakes, from earlier this morning.
> The sums should be over densities, so:
> 
> fh (X, Y) = [fh1 (X1, X1) + fh2 (X2, Y2) + ... + fhn (Xn, Yn)] / n
> 
> fh (X, Y) = w1*fh1 (X1, X1) + w2*fh2 (X2, Y2) + ... + wn*fhn (Xn, Yn)
> 
>    assuming the weights sum to 1
> 
> If simulated data is used, then the expressions above can be replaced
> with the union of multiple (sub)samples.
> Then an estimate/inference (say correlation) can be computed from one
> or more combined samples.
> 
> Sorry, for triple posting.
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 10:00 AM Abby Spurdle <spurdl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Frederick,
>> 
>> I glanced at the webpage you've linked.
>> (But only the top three snippets).
>> 
>> This is what I would call the sum of random variables.
>> (X, Y) = (X1, X1) + (X2, Y2) + ... + (Xn, Yn)
>> 
>> The example makes the mistake of assuming that the Xs are normally
>> distributed, and each of the Ys are from exactly the same uniform
>> distribution.
>> By "combine"-ing both approaches, are you wanting to weight each pair?
>> 
>> w1(X1, X1) + w2(X2, Y2) + ... + wn(Xn, Yn)
>> 
>> I note that you haven't told us much about your data.
>> There may be an easier way of doing things...
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 1:53 AM Frederik Feys <fref...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello everyone
>>> 
>>> At the moment I put a lot of attention in the uncertainty of my analyzes. I 
>>> want to do a spearman correlation that takes into account the uncertainty 
>>> in my observations and has weighting.
>>> 
>>> uncertainty of observations: I came across this excellent blog that 
>>> proposes a bootstrap function: 
>>> https://www.r-bloggers.com/finding-correlations-in-data-with-uncertainty/
>>> 
>>> weighted: I do weighted correlations with the wCorr package.
>>> 
>>> Now I want to combine both approaches in one approach for a final analysis. 
>>> How would you do that?
>>> 
>>> Thanks for the help!
>>> 
>>> Frederik Feys
>>> PhD Medical Sciences
>>> Onafhankelijk Methodoloog
>>> https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frederik_Feys
>>> +32488020010
>>> 
>>> 
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