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Two Results about the Sackin and Colless Indices for Phylogenetic Trees and Their Shapes
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- The Sackin and Colless indices are two widely-used metrics for measuring the balance of trees and for testing evolutionary models in phylogenetics. This short paper contributes two results about the Sackin and Colless indices of trees. One result is the asymptotic analysis of the expected Sackin and Colless indices of a tree shape (which are full binary rooted unlabelled trees) under the uniform model where tree shapes are sampled with equal probability. Another is a short elementary proof of the closed formula for the expected Sackin index of phylogenetic trees (which are full binary rooted trees with leaves being labelled with taxa) under the uniform model.<br />Comment: 10 pages, 1 fugre
- Subjects :
- Quantitative Biology - Populations and Evolution
05A16, 05C30, 92D15
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Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.2201.10958
- Document Type :
- Working Paper