In this paper we study ideals arising from moments of local Dirac measures
and their mixtures. We provide generators for the case of first order local
Diracs and explain how to obtain the moment ideal of the Pareto distribution
from them. We then use elimination theory and Prony's method for parameter
estimation of finite mixtures. Our results are showcased with applications in
signal processing and statistics. We highlight the natural connections to
algebraic statistics, combinatorics and applications in analysis throughout the
paper.Comment: 26 pages, 3 figure