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'use strict';

// MAIN //

/**
* Computes the variance of a double-precision floating-point strided array using a one-pass trial mean algorithm.
*
* ## Method
*
* -   This implementation uses a one-pass trial mean approach, as suggested by Chan et al (1983).
*
* ## References
*
* -   Neely, Peter M. 1966. "Comparison of Several Algorithms for Computation of Means, Standard Deviations and Correlation Coefficients." _Communications of the ACM_ 9 (7). Association for Computing Machinery: 496–99. doi:[10.1145/365719.365958](https://doi.org/10.1145/365719.365958).
* -   Ling, Robert F. 1974. "Comparison of Several Algorithms for Computing Sample Means and Variances." _Journal of the American Statistical Association_ 69 (348). American Statistical Association, Taylor & Francis, Ltd.: 859–66. doi:[10.2307/2286154](https://doi.org/10.2307/2286154).
* -   Chan, Tony F., Gene H. Golub, and Randall J. LeVeque. 1983. "Algorithms for Computing the Sample Variance: Analysis and Recommendations." _The American Statistician_ 37 (3). American Statistical Association, Taylor & Francis, Ltd.: 242–47. doi:[10.1080/00031305.1983.10483115](https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.1983.10483115).
* -   Schubert, Erich, and Michael Gertz. 2018. "Numerically Stable Parallel Computation of (Co-)Variance." In _Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management_. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. doi:[10.1145/3221269.3223036](https://doi.org/10.1145/3221269.3223036).
*
* @param {PositiveInteger} N - number of indexed elements
* @param {number} correction - degrees of freedom adjustment
* @param {Float64Array} x - input array
* @param {integer} stride - stride length
* @returns {number} variance
*
* @example
* var Float64Array = require( '@stdlib/array/float64' );
*
* var x = new Float64Array( [ 1.0, -2.0, 2.0 ] );
* var N = x.length;
*
* var v = dvariancech( N, 1, x, 1 );
* // returns ~4.3333
*/
function dvariancech( N, correction, x, stride ) {
	var mu;
	var ix;
	var M2;
	var M;
	var d;
	var n;
	var i;

	n = N - correction;
	if ( N <= 0 || n <= 0.0 ) {
		return NaN;
	}
	if ( N === 1 || stride === 0 ) {
		return 0.0;
	}
	if ( stride < 0 ) {
		ix = (1-N) * stride;
	} else {
		ix = 0;
	}
	// Use an estimate for the mean:
	mu = x[ ix ];
	ix += stride;

	// Compute the variance...
	M2 = 0.0;
	M = 0.0;
	for ( i = 1; i < N; i++ ) {
		d = x[ ix ] - mu;
		M2 += d * d;
		M += d;
		ix += stride;
	}
	return (M2/n) - ((M/N)*(M/n));
}


// EXPORTS //

module.exports = dvariancech;