Hi,
I am stumped with a question about how I can calculate the scaling factor between two data sets coming from two experiments on the same input data. I wrote a small Perl program to gather the data from Experiment-1 and Experiment-2. Input data fed into both these experiments is coming from the same source. I need to come up with a scaling factor for the data from Experiment-2, to make it as close as possible to the data in Experiment-1. Suppose, this data looks like
Experiment-1-Data   Experiment-2-Data
2                     3.3333
3.23                  1.433
7                     8.0577
9                     9.7344
11.3479              13.3377

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What I need to do is come up with a number to multiply with the data in the column "Experiment-2-Data", to make it as close as possible to the data in the column "Experiment-1-Data".
Is there some way to do this?
Thanks.
Bakbakallah

In reply to Stumped with a math question in my Perl program by Anonymous Monk

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