Turner College economist Frank Mixon and Steven Caudill of Auburn University recently inked a deal with Nova Science Publishers out of Hauppauge, New York, to produce a new scholarly book titled Mixture Models: Statistical Foundations, Estimation Strategies, and Applications. Mixture models, and their latent class model representatives, are powerful statistical techniques used to uncover hidden, unobserved subgroups (classes) within a broader population. Both models assume that the overall population is a mixture of multiple distinct subpopulations. Because class membership is unobserved, the models estimate the probability that an individual belongs to each class, effectively making them probabilistic, model-based clustering methods. Mixon has published several books over his career, with the most recent being a 2025 book with Turner College accounting professor Jasmine Bordere titled The Beauty Premium in Academe: An Economic Approach. In 2020, Mixon and Laura Ahlstrom of the University of Delaware published War Movies and Economics: Lessons from Hollywood's Adaptations of Military Conflicts. Prior to these he published A Terrible Efficiency: Entrepreneurial Bureaucrats and the Nazi Holocaust and Public Choice Economics and Salem Witchcraft Hysteria, released in 2019 and 2015, respectively. That same year he also published Economic Behavior, Economic Freedom, and Entrepreneurship with Richard Cebula of the University of Tennessee, Joshua Hall of West Virginia University and James Payne of Oklahoma State University. His other book titles preceded these.
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