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The paper presents a general approach to the computation of the expected value of various additive cost measures of a tree belonging to a simply generated family of trees. On the basis of these results, the behaviour of two refined cost measures is analyzed. This leads to surprising invariants which are valid for a tree in an arbitrary simply generated family of trees.
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Kemp, R. (1985). Free cost measures of trees. In: Budach, L. (eds) Fundamentals of Computation Theory. FCT 1985. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 199. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0028802
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