Multi-modal Distributions in Unsupervised Detection.

Updated May 5, 2026

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Handling data with multiple 'normal' clusters[cite: 1].

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Global thresholding fails here. Density-based methods (LOF) or Gaussian Mixture Models (GMM) are required to model each 'normal' mode independently[cite: 1].

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