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Remarks on the non-identifiability of mixtures of distributions

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This note points out some observations regarding the non-identifiability of finite mixtures of beta and Pearson Type VI distributions.

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    Khalaf E. Ahmad & Essam K. Al-Hussaini

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Ahmad, K.E., Al-Hussaini, E.K. Remarks on the non-identifiability of mixtures of distributions. Ann Inst Stat Math 34, 543–544 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02481052

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