From 99352b4f1daeef0e5f88c861a12021db01703d73 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Phil Steitz <psteitz@apache.org>
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 19:39:10 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Improved verification logic in test().

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jakarta/commons/proper/math/trunk@141166 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
---
 .../math/stat/univariate/AbstractUnivariateStatistic.java | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/commons/math/stat/univariate/AbstractUnivariateStatistic.java b/src/java/org/apache/commons/math/stat/univariate/AbstractUnivariateStatistic.java
index de271e458..89d005d3a 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/commons/math/stat/univariate/AbstractUnivariateStatistic.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/commons/math/stat/univariate/AbstractUnivariateStatistic.java
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ package org.apache.commons.math.stat.univariate;
  * Abstract Implementation for UnivariateStatistics.
  * Provides the ability to extend polymophically so that
  * indiviual statistics do not need to implement these methods.
- * @version $Revision: 1.13 $ $Date: 2004/03/04 04:25:09 $
+ * @version $Revision: 1.14 $ $Date: 2004/04/11 19:39:10 $
  */
 public abstract class AbstractUnivariateStatistic
     implements UnivariateStatistic {
@@ -56,8 +56,8 @@ public abstract class AbstractUnivariateStatistic
         final int begin,
         final int length) {
 
-        if (length > values.length) {
-            throw new IllegalArgumentException("length > values.length");
+        if (begin < 0) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("start position cannot be negative");
         }
 
         if (begin + length > values.length) {
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ public abstract class AbstractUnivariateStatistic
             throw new IllegalArgumentException("input value array is null");
         }
 
-        if (values.length == 0 || length == 0) {
+        if (length == 0) {
             return false;
         }