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+/* statistics/p_variance_source.c
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 Jim Davies, Brian Gough
+ *
+ * This program 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.
+ *
+ * This program 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 this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+ * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
+ */
+
+
+double
+FUNCTION(gsl_stats,pvariance) (const BASE data1[],
+ const size_t stride1, const size_t n1,
+ const BASE data2[],
+ const size_t stride2, const size_t n2)
+{
+ /* Find the pooled variance of two datasets */
+
+ const double var1 = FUNCTION(gsl_stats,variance) (data1, stride1, n1);
+ const double var2 = FUNCTION(gsl_stats,variance) (data2, stride2, n2);
+
+ /* calculate the pooled variance */
+
+ const double pooled_variance =
+ (((n1 - 1) * var1) + ((n2 - 1) * var2)) / (n1 + n2 - 2);
+
+ return pooled_variance;
+}
+