Two results on expected values of imbalance indices of phylogenetic trees

2012/01/18 by Arnau Mir, Mir, Arnau, Francesc Rosselló +1
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · #Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies #Evolution and Paleontology Studies #FOS: Biological sciences #Plant and animal studies #Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1201.3884

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Abstract

We compute an explicit formula for the expected value of the Colless index of a phylogenetic tree generated under the Yule model, and an explicit formula for the expected value of the Sackin index of a phylogenetic tree generated under the uniform model.

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