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+/*
+ * This file is part of TISEAN
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) 1998-2007 Rainer Hegger, Holger Kantz, Thomas Schreiber
+ *
+ * TISEAN is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * TISEAN is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with TISEAN; if not, write to the Free Software
+ * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
+ */
+/*Author: Rainer Hegger Last modified: May 23th, 1998 */
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <math.h>
+#include "tisean_cec.h"
+
+void variance(double *s,unsigned long l,double *av,double *var)
+{
+ unsigned long i;
+ double h;
+
+ *av= *var=0.0;
+
+ for (i=0;i<l;i++) {
+ h=s[i];
+ *av += h;
+ *var += h*h;
+ }
+ *av /= (double)l;
+ *var=sqrt(fabs((*var)/(double)l-(*av)*(*av)));
+ if (*var == 0.0) {
+ fprintf(stderr,"Variance of the data is zero. Exiting!\n\n");
+ exit(VARIANCE_VAR_EQ_ZERO);
+ }
+}
+