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Values of 617:

The value of DIFFS may depend somewhat on the value of TOL chosen, as the approximation chosen to calculate DIFFS depends on both the number of entries and on the size of TOL (how accurately DIFFS must be calcuated).

The S option sometimes returns a confidence level of 1.0 in the small statistics calculation, i.e. there is no probability that the two numbers came from different distributions. This is due to finite precision. Values slightly higher than 1.0 will be returned when the two content values are identical, since no statistical test could claim they came from different distributions.


Janne Saarela
Tue May 16 09:09:27 METDST 1995