diff --git a/lib/node_modules/@stdlib/stats/incr/mpcorrdist/test/test.js b/lib/node_modules/@stdlib/stats/incr/mpcorrdist/test/test.js
index 73700752d7eb..9deef0542058 100644
--- a/lib/node_modules/@stdlib/stats/incr/mpcorrdist/test/test.js
+++ b/lib/node_modules/@stdlib/stats/incr/mpcorrdist/test/test.js
@@ -380,8 +380,8 @@ tape( 'the accumulator function computes a moving sample Pearson product-moment
 					actual = 0.0; // NOTE: this addresses occasional negative values due to accumulated floating-point error. Based on observation, typically `|actual| ≅ |expected|`, but `actual < 0` and `expected > 0`, suggesting that a sign got "flipped" along the way due to, e.g., operations which theoretically should compute to the same value, but do not due to floating-point error.
 				}
 				delta = abs( actual - expected );
-				if ( expected === 0.0 || actual === 0.0 ) {
-					tol = 10.0 * EPS;
+				if ( abs( expected ) < 1.0 ) {
+					tol = 1.0e6 * EPS;
 				} else {
 					tol = 1.0e6 * EPS * abs( expected );
 				}
@@ -434,7 +434,11 @@ tape( 'the accumulator function computes a moving sample Pearson product-moment
 				t.strictEqual( actual, expected, 'returns expected value. dataset: '+i+'. window: '+j+'.' );
 			} else {
 				delta = abs( actual - expected );
-				tol = 1.0e6 * EPS * abs( expected );
+				if ( abs( expected ) < 1.0 ) {
+					tol = 1.0e6 * EPS;
+				} else {
+					tol = 1.0e6 * EPS * abs( expected );
+				}
 				t.strictEqual( delta <= tol, true, 'dataset: '+i+'. window: '+j+'. expected: '+expected+'. actual: '+actual+'. tol: '+tol+'. delta: '+delta+'.' );
 			}
 		}