Correct, you cannot do a permutation test with continuous variables (or with any non-orthogonal design matrix). If you use the --perm-force, it will do the permutation test as normal (by randomly swapping the rows), but technically the test is not legal. Having said that, I suspect that LOTS of people do exactly that. doug
On 04/04/2013 10:03 AM, Gabriel Gonzalez Escamilla wrote:
Dear Freesurfer experts,
I'm having troubles when setting a permutation test, I'm making group comparisons, but I'm introducing the Age, and cortical thickness as niusance variables (as previously recommended).
It seems that permutations only work for orthogonal matrices, does this means that I cannot set any niusance variable?
If so, this is telling me that I can run the command with the flag "--perm-force", and I'm wondering, which would be the implications of force to run the permutations with niusance variables?
Many thanks in advance, Gabriel
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