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Main Authors: Becquart, Colombe, Archimbaud, Aurore, Ruiz, Anne M., Smida, Zaineb
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.13326
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  • This note addresses a key limitation of the Folding Test of Unimodality (FTU). In specific univariate mixture settings, the folding-based criterion can systematically fail, misclassifying clearly multimodal distributions as unimodal. We fully characterize these failures for Dirac mixtures and extend the analysis to Gaussian mixtures. We then introduce a double-folding procedure that captures complementary information, leading to a new test, the Double Folding Test of Unimodality. It resolves the FTU failures and improves multimodality detection power in simulations.