The mean, variance and limiting distribution of two statistics sensitive to phylogenetic tree balance (Q997423)

In practical biological applications it is always an important (and often not well appreciated) task to evaluate the resulted phylogenetic tree. There are several available statistical measures to achieve this; Sackin's and Colless' indices are among them. This rather technical paper analyses the mean, (co)variance and limiting joint distribution of these indices for large phylogenetic trees under the Yule and uniform models. The study is concerned mainly with the topology of the resulted trees, therefore branch length is ignored.