“…Fields in which mixture models have been successfully applied include, but not limited to, fisheries (Fleischman & Burwen, 2003), economics (Alexander, 2004), medicine (Schlattmann, 2009), genetics (Schork et al, 1996), psychology (Ram & Grimm, 2009), palaeontology (Hunt & Chapman, 2001), archaeology (Dong, 1997), electrophoresis (Melnykov et al, 2011), sedimentology (Sylvester, 2007), geology (Coli et al, 2012), botany (Gutierrez et al, 1995), agriculture (Xu et al, 2010), zoology (Baral et al, 2013), communication theory (Yang & Zwolinski, 2011) and engineering (Liu et al, 2008).…”