Extremal weighted path lengths in random binary search trees

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作者
Aguech, Rafik [1 ]
Lasmar, Nabil
Mahmoud, Hosam
机构
[1] Fac Sci Monastir, Dept Math, Monastir 5019, Tunisia
[2] IPEIT, Dept Math, Tunis, Tunisia
[3] George Washington Univ, Dept Stat, Washington, DC 20052 USA
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D O I
10.1017/S026996480707009X
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T [工业技术];
学科分类号
08 ;
摘要
We consider weighted path lengths to the extremal leaves in a random binary search tree. When linearly scaled, the weighted path length to the minimal label has Dickman's infinitely divisible distribution as a limit. By contrast, the weighted path length to the maximal label needs to be centered and scaled to converge to a standard normal variate in distribution. The exercise shows that path lengths associated with different ranks exhibit different behaviors depending on the rank. However, the majority of the ranks have a weighted path length with average behavior similar to that of the weighted path to the maximal node.
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页码:133 / 141
页数:9
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