Question about multimodal parameter estimation

From: nelson <nelson1977@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 18:49:06 +0200

Hi all,
i have some data and looking at them i suppose are generated by a gamma
distribution plus a normal distribution, in fact the look like this figure:

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(i hope you can read it :) )

How can i estimate the parameter of the distribution of my data? I read
about MLE, but i can't find example that uses multimodal ditributions...

thanks for any advice,
nelson

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