The mean, variance and limiting distribution of two statistics sensitive to phylogenetic tree balance

Annals of Applied Probability

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 2195-2214

  Blum, Michael G B ^a   François, Olivier ^a   Janson, Svante ^b  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Airy distribution; Catalan trees; Central limit theorem; Contraction method; Random phylogenetic trees; Shape statistics; Yule process

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846885862     PISSN: 10505164     EISSN: 10505164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/105051606000000547     Document Type: Article

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