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(eng): Initialization is an extremely important part of the mixture estimation process. There exists a series of initialization approaches in the literature concerning the mixture initialization. However, the majority of them is directed at initialization of the expectation-maximization algorithm widely used in this area. This paper focuses on the initialization of the mixture estimation with normal components based on the recursive statistics update of involved distributions, where the mentioned methods are not suitable. Its key part is the choice of the initial statistics. The paper describes several relatively simple initialization techniques primarily based on processing the prior data. The experimental part of the paper represents results of validation on real data.