In this case, GLM stands for "General Linear Model", and not "Generalized Linear Model" (although the former is a subset of the latter). See e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized_linear_model#Confusion_with_general_linear_models
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From: freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu [freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu] on behalf of ye tian [tianye730@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2014 12:46 PM
To: Freesurfer
Subject: [Freesurfer] GLM: What's the link?

Hello Freesurfers,

I can not tell what the link is from the Mathematical Background in mri_glmfit . Also, why is GLM performed instead of a linear regression (OLS or weighted LS )? I can not see how logistic, probit, etc is better.

Thank you very much!

Sincerely,
Ye

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