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Bimodality of Plasma Glucose Distributions in Whites: A Bootstrap Approach to Testing Mixture Models
Volume 8, Issue 3 (2010), pp. 483–493
Ying Yang   Juanjuan Fan   Susanne May  

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https://doi.org/10.6339/JDS.2010.08(3).613
Pub. online: 10 July 2021      Type: Research Article      Open accessOpen Access

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10 July 2021

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Abstract: The null distribution of the likelihood ratio test (LRT) of a onecomponent normal model versus two-component normal mixture model is
unknown. In this paper, we take a bootstrap approach to the likelihood ratio
test for testing bimodality of plasma glucose concentrations from Rancho
Bernardo Diabetes Study. The small p-values from this approach support the
hypothesis that a bimodal normal mixture model fits the data significantly
better than a unimodal normal model. The size and power of the bootstrap
based LRT are evaluated through simulations. The results suggest that a
sample size of close to 500 would be necessary in order to attain a power of
90% for detecting the unbalanced mixtures with means and variances similar
to those in the Rancho Bernardo data. Besides sample size, the power also
depends on the two means and variances of the two components in the data.

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