Preserving unimodality by mixing

Emile Bertin and Radu Theodorescu

Statistics & Probability Letters, 1995, vol. 25, issue 3, 281-288

Abstract: It is shown that unimodality (discrete or not) is preserved by mixing for certain distributions. The technique of proof is essentially based on the Representation Theorem of Khinchin which characterizes unimodality.

Keywords: Mixing; Mixture; distributions; Theorem; of; Khinchin; Unimodality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1995
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