in reply to Statistical data analysis
Your method of calculating variance can result in loss of significant digits. For example, the following data produces a variance of 0 for X on my machine (causing div-by-zero errors later). The variance should be the same for both X and Y (as the data differs only by a constant).
999999997 9999997 999999998 9999998 999999999 9999999
Better results may be achieved by "centering" your variance calculation about the mean.
my $VX = 0; $VX += ($_ - $MX)**2 for @x; $VX /= $Xn;
You are also making far more passes over the data than necessary.
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