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International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming

ICALP 1991: Automata, Languages and Programming pp 186–203Cite as

Statistics on random trees

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In this paper we give a survey of the symbolic operator methods to do statistics on random trees. We present some examples and apply the techniques to find their asymptotic behaviour.

This research was supported by the ESPRIT BRA Program of the EC under contract no. 3075, project ALCOM.

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Casas, R., Díaz, J., Martinez, C. (1991). Statistics on random trees. In: Albert, J.L., Monien, B., Artalejo, M.R. (eds) Automata, Languages and Programming. ICALP 1991. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 510. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-54233-7_134

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