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The asymptotic distribution of leaf heights in binary trees (English)
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16 January 1993
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The height \(h_ t(i)\) of the \(i\)-th leaf (counted from left to right) in a tree \(t\) is the distance from the root to this leaf. This paper derives the asymptotic distribution of the normalized height \(h_ t(i)/\sqrt n\) as \(i/n\to x\), in a random tree with \(n\) internal nodes. This distribution is shown to be a Maxwell distribution, the distribution of the square root of a sum of squares of independent normally distributed random variables.
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height
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asymptotic distribution
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random tree
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