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Identifiability of finite mixtures of the following families of distributions are proved: Weibull, normal log, chi, pareto and power function.
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Ahmad, K.E. Identifiability of finite mixtures using a new transform. Ann Inst Stat Math 40, 261–265 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00052342
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