Hi experts,

I have a follow up question:
In case I wanted to add another covariate in contrast matrix e.g. in addition to age and gender if I want to add BMI as another covariate in calculating correlation between volume and LGI (as mentioned in previous email), could you please confirm if following contrast matrix is correct:

0 0 0 0 0 0 1

for FSGD:

GroupDescriptorFile 1

Class Male

Class Female

Variables Age BMI

Input        zerek1 Male 21 17

Input zerek2 Male 25 19

etc.

If that's the correct matrix, could you please briefly explain how this matrix explains the effect of age, sex and BMI i.e. how does each zero and 1 explain the correlation between volume and LGI and removes the effect of age, sex and BMI?

Thanks.

On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 8:31 AM, Douglas Greve <greve@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> wrote:

The 2nd is the correct matrix


On 5/15/17 12:36 PM, Sahil Bajaj wrote:

Hi everyone,

From FreeSurfer manual and discussion forum, I found that volume and LGI can be correlated using mri_glmfit command with -pvr flag.

For that, my fsgd file has age, gender as covariates and the file is as following:

GroupDescriptorFile 1

Class Male

Class Female

Variables Age

Input        zerek1 Male 21

Input zerek2 Male 25

etc.

My concern is:

To run mri_glmfit command, I am not sure how to define my contrast matrix if I am interested in removing the effect of age and sex.

1st option I tried is: 0 0.5 0.5 0 1

Here, I think first 0 regresses out age, 0.5 0.5 should be averaging over males and females and last 0 1 correlates between volume and LGI. But this looks like it is not giving me correct correlations maps, although there is no error.

2nd option I tried is: 0 0 0 0 1

This looks like its working and maps look correct to me but I want to make sure this is the correct contrast matrix and I am not sure how this matrix is regressing out age and gender or 1st option is correct contrast matrix?

Thank you so much !

Best,

Sahil



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