s or follow an S-shape. A mixed distribution often
represents the combination of multiple failure modes and thus must be
split in its components to get reasonable results in further
analyses.</p>
<p>Segmented regression aims to detect breakpoints in the sample data
from which a split in subgroups can be made. The
expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm is a computation-intensive
method that iteratively tries to maximize a likelihood function, which
is weighted by posterior probabilities. These are condition