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Preserving unimodality by mixing. (English) Zbl 0838.62012

Summary: 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.

MSC:

62E10 Characterization and structure theory of statistical distributions
60E05 Probability distributions: general theory
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