Limit Laws for Local Counters in Random Binary Search Tree

نویسنده

  • Luc Devroye
چکیده

Limit laws for several quantities in random binary search trees that are related to the local shape of a tree around each node can be obtained very simply by applying central limit theorems for rn-dependent random variables . Examples include : the number of leaves (La ), the number of nodes with k descendants (k fixed), the number of nodes with no left child, the number of nodes with k left descendants . Some of these results can also be obtained via the theory of urn models, but the present method seems easier to apply .

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Random Struct. Algorithms

دوره 2  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1991