<p><strong>Usage of "weights": in meta-analysis</strong></p>

<p>You ask about other uses. In the <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/meta-analysis" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;meta-analysis&#39;" rel="tag">meta-analysis</a> thread there are occasional posts about alternatives to the standard inverse-variance weighted method.</p>

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<p>There seem to be three with <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/weighted-mean" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;weighted-mean&#39;" rel="tag">weighted-mean</a> tag, two with <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/weighted-regression" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;weighted-regression&#39;" rel="tag">weighted-regression</a> and one with <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/weighted-sampling" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;weighted-sampling&#39;" rel="tag">weighted-sampling</a> out of ~450. The last one seems justifiable as the OP wanted to meta-analyse data from survey samples but the other five seem tautologous to me.</p>

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Upvote: delete tags on the five
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Downvote: leave it
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<p>Assuming I can work out how to (and have enough rep) I am happy to do the deletion if it gets voted for.</p>
