R help - Apr 2009 - comparing mixture models (mix function in mixdist package)

Dear List,

We are using the mix() function in the mixdist package to fit mixture models to
some of our data.

The package provides a function to compare the fits of nested models using an
ANOVA function.

However, we were wondering whether there are methods that can be used to compare
models that differ in the number of distributions fitted and/or the shape of the
distributions.

Is there a way, using likelihoods maybe, to compare this kinds of fits in a
statistical meaningfull way?

Regards,
Dieter Vanderelst