On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 3:14 AM Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen <xxxxxx@nieper-wisskirchen.de> wrote:

If you change the probability vector into a weight vector (as above), the numerical instability of the error condition vanishes. All you need is that the weights are non-negative and that their sum is positive.

In my beginning is my end; weights are what my original draft asked for.

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