Abstract
A fundamental task of philologists is to construct the family tree (stemma) of preserved copies of ancient manuscripts. A simple probabilistic model based on random rooted trees is proposed to assist in the identification of the number of terminal copies. The model provides the distribution of the number of terminal vertices in a random tree. An application to stemma construction is given.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty,General Mathematics,Statistics and Probability
Cited by
8 articles.
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