Correlation of two arrays in C#

Question

Having two arrays of double values, I want to compute correlation coefficient (single double value, just like the CORREL function in MS Excel). Is there some simple one-line

Answer 1

In order to calculate Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearson_product-moment_correlation_coefficient

You can use this simple code:

  public static Double Correlation(Double[] Xs, Double[] Ys) {
    Double sumX = 0;
    Double sumX2 = 0;
    Double sumY = 0;
    Double sumY2 = 0;
    Double sumXY = 0;

    int n = Xs.Length < Ys.Length ? Xs.Length : Ys.Length;

    for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
      Double x = Xs[i];
      Double y = Ys[i];

      sumX += x;
      sumX2 += x * x;
      sumY += y;
      sumY2 += y * y;
      sumXY += x * y;
    }

    Double stdX = Math.Sqrt(sumX2 / n - sumX * sumX / n / n);
    Double stdY = Math.Sqrt(sumY2 / n - sumY * sumY / n / n);
    Double covariance = (sumXY / n - sumX * sumY / n / n);

    return covariance / stdX / stdY; 
  }