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The Median of the Distance between Two Leaves in a Phylogenetic Tree

  • Mir A
  • Rosselló F
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13214-8_17
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Abstract

We establish a limit formula for the median of the distance between two leaves in a fully resolved unrooted phylogenetic tree with n leaves. More precisely, we prove that this median is equal, in the limit, to root 4ln(2)n.

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Mir, A., & Rosselló, F. (2010). The Median of the Distance between Two Leaves in a Phylogenetic Tree (pp. 131–135). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13214-8_17

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