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Title: Conditions for bimodality and multimodality of a mixture of two unimodal densities (English)
Author: Došlá, Šárka
Language: English
Journal: Kybernetika
ISSN: 0023-5954
Volume: 45
Issue: 2
Year: 2009
Pages: 279-292
Summary lang: English
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Category: math
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Summary: 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. (English)
Keyword: bimodality
Keyword: unimodality
Keyword: multimodality
Keyword: mixture of two unimodal distributions
MSC: 60E05
MSC: 62E10
idZBL: Zbl 1165.62304
idMR: MR2518152
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Date available: 2010-06-02T18:31:26Z
Last updated: 2013-09-21
Stable URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10338.dmlcz/140075
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