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In the original publication by Furnas [52], the Furnas rank (also sometimes referred to as Furnas’ R statistic) was introduced as a tool for sampling trees uniformly from the set of rooted binary unlabeled trees with a certain leaf number. Kirkpatrick and Slatkin [84] later suggested the Furnas rank as a measure of balance for rooted binary trees.
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Fischer, M., Herbst, L., Kersting, S.J., Kühn, A.L., Wicke, K. (2023). Furnas rank. In: Tree Balance Indices. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39800-1_22
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