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Dear Drs. Winkler, Greve, Fischl, et al.

Could you help me understand which palm options are needed in order to produce tfce and clustere NPC results that are fwe-corrected across contrasts (i.e., _cfwep_)?

I'm analyzing area and thickness and have four one-tailed contrasts of interest (e.g., C1+, C1-, C2+, C2-). Currently, I am only able to get the "output'_dpv_npc_fisher_cfwep_c[1234]" results, but the palm log ends abruptly after saving these files and does not save the _tfce_ or _clustere_ versions:

Saving p-values for NPC between modalities (uncorrected and corrected within contrasts).

         Saving file: wordadhd_npc_lh_dpv_npc_fisher_fwep_c1

         Saving file: wordadhd_npc_lh_clustere_npc_fisher_c1

         Saving file: wordadhd_npc_lh_clustere_npc_fisher_fwep_c1

         Saving file: wordadhd_npc_lh_tfce_npc_fisher_c1

         Saving file: wordadhd_npc_lh_tfce_npc_fisher_fwep_c1

         Saving file: wordadhd_npc_lh_dpv_npc_fisher_fwep_c2

         Saving file: wordadhd_npc_lh_clustere_npc_fisher_c2

         Saving file: wordadhd_npc_lh_clustere_npc_fisher_fwep_c2

         Saving file: wordadhd_npc_lh_tfce_npc_fisher_c2

         Saving file: wordadhd_npc_lh_tfce_npc_fisher_fwep_c2

         Saving file: wordadhd_npc_lh_dpv_npc_fisher_fwep_c3

         Saving file: wordadhd_npc_lh_clustere_npc_fisher_c3

         Saving file: wordadhd_npc_lh_clustere_npc_fisher_fwep_c3

         Saving file: wordadhd_npc_lh_tfce_npc_fisher_c3

         Saving file: wordadhd_npc_lh_tfce_npc_fisher_fwep_c3

         Saving file: wordadhd_npc_lh_dpv_npc_fisher_fwep_c4

         Saving file: wordadhd_npc_lh_clustere_npc_fisher_c4

         Saving file: wordadhd_npc_lh_clustere_npc_fisher_fwep_c4

         Saving file: wordadhd_npc_lh_tfce_npc_fisher_c4

         Saving file: wordadhd_npc_lh_tfce_npc_fisher_fwep_c4

Saving p-values for NPC between modalities (corrected across contrasts).

         Saving file: wordadhd_npc_lh_dpv_npc_fisher_cfwep_c1

         Saving file: wordadhd_npc_lh_dpv_npc_fisher_cfwep_c2

         Saving file: wordadhd_npc_lh_dpv_npc_fisher_cfwep_c3

         Saving file: wordadhd_npc_lh_dpv_npc_fisher_cfwep_c4

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The error log contains the following text, and my efforts to read through these source files have been in vain:

{^HCell contents reference from a non-cell array object.

 Error in palm_saveall (line 1043)
                distmax(:,j) = plm.Tclumax{m}{c};

Error in palm_core (line 2489)
palm_saveall(plm,opts);

Error in palm (line 81)
palm_core(varargin{:});
}^H
^G

I have essentially permuted the various -corr(con/mod) and -npc(con/mod) options, as well as various combinations of -T & -C {z}, -Tuni & -Cuni {z}, and -Tnpc & -Cnpc {z}, using a small number of permutations to assess the number of output maps and whether jobs finish appropriately.

Here's an example of one of the palm commands that resulted in these output and error logs (with line-breaks for legibility):

fsl_sub -l $logdir palm -designperinput

-i {area_dir}/292_${hemi}.area_stack.mgh

-d {design_dir}/wordadhd_npc_areatotal.mat

-t {design_dir}/wordadhd_npc_areatotal.con

-i {thickness_dir}/292_${hemi}.thickness_stack.mgh

-d {design_dir}/wordadhd_npc_thickmean.mat

-t {design_dir}/wordadhd_npc_thickmean.con

-m {base_dir}/palm/input/${hemi}mask.mgz

-s ${surf_dir}/${hemi}.white ${surf_dir}/${hemi}.white.avg.area.mgh

-o wordadhd_npc_${hemi}

-eb ${EB} -corrcon -corrmod

 -logp -ise -npc -T -C 1.64485 -n 5


If knowing versions helps at all:
PALM alpha109
MATLAB 8.3.0.532 (R2014a)
FreeSurfer 5.3.0
FSL 5.0.8 

Any advice you could provide on this particular error, why my input doesn't produce the tfce_cfwep or clustere_cfwep results, or other problem-solving suggestions would be greatly appreciated!


With gratitude,
Dan