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Conditions for bimodality and multimodality of a mixture of two unimodal densities
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Conditions for bimodality of mixtures of two unimodal distributions are investigated in some special cases. Based on general characterizations, explicit criteria for the parameters are derived for mixtures of two Cauchy, logistic, Student, gamma, log-normal, Gumbel and other distributions.
Conditions for bimodality of mixtures of two unimodal distributions are investigated in some special cases. Based on general characterizations, explicit criteria for the parameters are derived for mixtures of two Cauchy, logistic, Student, gamma, log-normal, Gumbel and other distributions.
Classification : 60E05, 62E10
Keywords: bimodality; unimodality; multimodality; mixture of two unimodal distributions 
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Došlá, Šárka. Conditions for bimodality and multimodality of a mixture of two unimodal densities. Kybernetika, Tome 45 (2009) no. 2, pp. 279-292. http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/item/KYB_2009_45_2_a5/

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