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Fri, 11 Oct 2013 16:19:46 GMT

the true distribution is a mixture of Gaussians

In the limit, the mixture of Gaussians is a Gaussian.

It's not clear to me that malnourishment leads to multiple modes, rather than just decreasing the mean while probably increasing the variance

Theoretically, malnourishment (given that only a part of the population suffers from it) should lead to a negatively skewed distribution. And yes, with a lower mean and higher variance.

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