A new distribution to do statistics on k-ary trees

In this paper we study distributions on k-ary trees, which from the point of doing statistics on trees, they behave in a more realistic way than the usual uniform distribution. In particular, we choose a distribution for which the results are very different from those obtained under the uniform dist...

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Autores: Cases Muñoz, Rafael, Díaz Cort, Josep|||0000-0003-4422-0067, Martínez Parra, Conrado|||0000-0003-1302-9067
Tipo de recurso: informe técnico
Fecha de publicación:1990
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/370252
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/370252
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Trees (Graph theory)
Arbres (Teoria de grafs)
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Sumario:In this paper we study distributions on k-ary trees, which from the point of doing statistics on trees, they behave in a more realistic way than the usual uniform distribution. In particular, we choose a distribution for which the results are very different from those obtained under the uniform distribution. Using the new distribution, the analysis itself is a lot more complex, but feasible. We ilustrate our point by working out a particular simple case of study; the computation of the average size of the inersection of two k-ary trees. The development of this analysis involves Bessel functions which appear in the solutions of partial differential equations, and the result is an average size of c·n^¿/v(ln¿n )·(1+0(1/ln¿¿n)), where a and c are constants depending only on the arity of the tree. This result contrasts with the unrealistic 0(1) obtained as solution when considering a uniform distribution.