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Maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) is the most common approach to quantum state tomography.
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Usually, the systems are split into subsets, and each subset is measured a different way. But because estimation requires only the observed outcomes (not how they were obtained), those various measurements can be conglomerated into a single POVM { E k } \{E_{k}\} without loss of generality
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