The expected length of pendant and interior edges of a Yule tree

DOI10.1016/J.AML.2010.06.021zbMATH Open1195.92048arXiv0910.5240OpenAlexW2594042085MaRDI QIDQ993754FDOQ993754

Mike Steel, Arne Ø. Mooers

Publication date: 20 September 2010

Published in: Applied Mathematics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: 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 $lambda$. 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 $lambda$ is known or is estimated using maximum likelihood.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.5240

zbMATH Keywords

treedifferential equationYule modelpure-birth process

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of graph theory (05C90) Problems related to evolution (92D15) Trees (05C05)

Cites Work

• The conditioned reconstructed process
• Stochastic properties of generalised Yule models, with biodiversity applications

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• Phylomatic

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