The Median of the Distance between Two Leaves in a Phylogenetic Tree
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چکیده
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 √ 4 ln(2)n.
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