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The expected length of pendant and interior edges of a Yule tree by Mike Steel; Arne Mooers is a Mathematics article available to read on EtoBox.
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The Yule (pure-birth) model is the simplest null model of speciation; each lineage gives rise to a new lineage independently with the same rate λ. We investigate the expected length of an edge chosen at random from the resulting evolutionary tree. In particular, we compare the expected length of a randomly selected edge with the expected length of a randomly selected pendant edge. We provide some exact formulae, and show how our results depend slightly on whether the depth of the tree or the number of leaves is conditioned on, and whether λ is known or is estimated using maximum likelihood.
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- Author
- Mike Steel; Arne Mooers
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier Ltd.; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0893-9659)
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Mathematics (Physical Sciences)