Mixture models

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A mixture model (sometimes mixture distribution) is a density model consisting of a mixture (weighed sum) of independent variables.

This is a pretty abstract concept.

See also

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_mixture_model
• http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~dld/mixturemodel.html