def c3(x, lag):
    """
    This function calculates the value of

    .. math::

        \\frac{1}{n-2lag} \sum_{i=0}^{n-2lag} x_{i + 2 \cdot lag}^2 \cdot x_{i + lag} \cdot x_{i}

    which is

    .. math::

        \\mathbb{E}[L^2(X)^2 \cdot L(X) \cdot X]

    where :math:`\\mathbb{E}` is the mean and :math:`L` is the lag operator. It was proposed in [1] as a measure of
    non linearity in the time series.

    .. rubric:: References

    |  [1] Schreiber, T. and Schmitz, A. (1997).
    |  Discrimination power of measures for nonlinearity in a time series
    |  PHYSICAL REVIEW E, VOLUME 55, NUMBER 5

    :param x: the time series to calculate the feature of
    :type x: numpy.ndarray
    :param lag: the lag that should be used in the calculation of the feature
    :type lag: int
    :return: the value of this feature
    :return type: float
    """
    if not isinstance(x, (np.ndarray, pd.Series)):
        x = np.asarray(x)
    n = x.size
    if 2 * lag >= n:
        return 0
    else:
        return np.mean((_roll(x, 2 * -lag) * _roll(x, -lag) * x)[0:(n - 2 * lag)])