On the number of terminal vertices in certain random trees with an application to stemma construction in philology
Dietmar Najock, Chris C. Heyde · Journal of Applied Probability · 1982
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.