Anyone that knows about methods of identifying multi-modality of samples of distributions? Or methods of estimating number of modes?

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Sergiy Prykhodko

Dear Lars,

You may be interested in the article by Ling Xu, Edward J. Bedrick, Timothy Hanson and Carla Restrepo "A Comparison of Statistical Tools for Identifying Modality in Body Mass Distributions"

http://jds-online.com/file_download/440/JDS-1201.pdf

Lars Abrahamsson

Thanks. I'll look into it!