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weighing the maximum likelihood

I would like to define a log-likelihood (starting with a gaussian distribution) for an observed value of a quantity ( enter image description here ), compared to the measured value based on a given model ( enter image description here ) and instead of using the measurement errors for each observation ( enter image description here ), I would like to use the weighing value which is a combination of errors and another measured parameter, i.e. enter image description here, where enter image description here can be a given constant value. It is easy to show that enter image description here has reverse property as error, meaning it is higher for values with smaller errors mostly.

How could I re-write the likelihood and use the weight value for each measurement instead of errors?

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