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

By Michael G. B. Blum, Olivier Franccois, Svante Janson. 2006

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For two decades, the Colless index has been the most frequently used statistic for assessing the balance of phylogenctic trees. In this article, this statistic is studied under the Yule and unif ...

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Molecular Biology, Paleontology

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