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A license is hereby granted to reproduce this software source code and
to create executable versions from this source code for personal,
non-commercial use.  The copyright notice included with the software
must be maintained in all copies produced.

THIS PROGRAM IS PROVIDED "AS IS". THE AUTHOR PROVIDES NO WARRANTIES
WHATSOEVER, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, TITLE, OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  THE
AUTHOR DOES NOT WARRANT THAT USE OF THIS PROGRAM DOES NOT INFRINGE THE
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS OF ANY THIRD PARTY IN ANY COUNTRY.

Copyright (c) 1997-2002, John Conover, All Rights Reserved.

Comments and/or bug reports should be addressed to:

    john@johncon.com (John Conover)

    http://www.johncon.com/ntropix/
    http://www.johncon.com/

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File inventory:

    INSTALL explains how to compile and install the tsinvest program
    suite.

    MANIFEST this file.

    Makefile is the makefile script that compiles the tsinvest program
    suite.

    QA.METRICS is listing of the quality assurance process and metrics
    on the tsinvest suite of programs.

    README is a general description, quick start, demonstration, and
    general comments on the tsinvest program suite.

    tsinvest.c is the C source code for the equity investment program.

    tsinvest.1 is the Unix manual, (man(1)), page for the tsinvest
    program.

    tsinvestsim.c is the C source code for the equity market
    simulation program.

    tsinvestsim.1 is the Unix manual, (man(1)), tsinvestsim program.

    tsshannoneffective.c is the C source code for the program that
    uses statistical estimation techniques to compute the maximum
    effective Shannon probability that can be used. It is a fragment
    from the tsinvest program, and is included separately as a
    tutorial on the large data set required for accurate analysis of
    equity values.

    tsshannoneffective.1 is the Unix manual, (man(1)), page for the
    tsshannoneffective program.

    tsinvestdb.c is a C source code template for programs that
    manipulate the tsinvest(1) time series database(s). It contains
    the hash algorithm look up tables for expedient development of
    specialized database systems. The example application is a syntax
    verification program for the tsinvest(1) time series database
    format and structure.

    tsinvestdb.1 is the Unix manual, (man(1)), page for the tsinvestdb
    program.

    csv2tsinvest.c is a C source code template for programs that that
    convert different time series formats and structures to the
    tsinvest(1) time series database(s) format.  The example
    application is the Yahoo! historical stock price database
    spreadsheet format, csv, available from http://chart.yahoo.com/d
    by specifying "Download Spreadsheet Format" at the bottom of the
    page when requesting the time series for a stock.

    csv2tsinvest.1 is the Unix manual, (man(1)), page for the
    csv2tsinvest program.

    stocks is a daily fragment of the American stock exchanges,
    consisting of 454 equities, from January 1, 1993, to June 6, 1996,
    as supplied by http://www.ai.mit.edu/stocks.html.

    stocks.names is the names, and corporate web sites, of various
    equities in the file, stocks, as supplied by
    http://www.ai.mit.edu/stocks.html.

    stocks.symbols is the names, and ticker symbols of various
    equities in the file, stocks, as supplied by
    http://www.ai.mit.edu/stocks.html.

    stocks.copyright is correspondence between Mark Torrance of
    http://www.ai.mit.edu/stocks.html and myself concerning copyright
    issues of the reformatted historical equity data contained in the
    file, stocks.

    tests is a directory that contains data files for the tsinvestsim
    program for regression testing of the tsinvest and tsinvestsim
    programs.

John Conover
john@johncon.com
June 7, 2002
