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In statistics, conflation refers to the merging of independent probability density functions using simple multiplication of the constituent densities. [1] Unfortunately, conflation generates a joint density that suffers from a mean-biased expected value and an overly optimistic standard deviation. This shortcoming is satisfactorily solved by the coalescense method. [2]