If you don't have too much noise, the peaks in the derivative curves can be used:
See: http://research.stowers-institute.org/efg/R/Statistics/MixturesOfDistributions/index.htm efg Earl F. Glynn Scientific Programmer Stowers Institute for Medical Research <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi, > > I have a problem of estimating a mixture of two normal distributions. I > need to find the starting points automatically, since this is a part of a > larger piece of image processing code. ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
