On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Douglas N Greve <greve@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> wrote:

It should be roughly the sum of the dofs of the individual subjects. Why are you using a fixed-effects model?
doug

SHAHIN NASR wrote:

Thanks Doug. Just one related question. Should I also generate a new ffxdof.dat file for this map? I assumed that ffxdof depends on the number of subjects (session) and since number of subjects (sessions) is the same between the two groups then I can use those values, generated by isxconcat-sess for either map1 or map2. Right?

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Douglas N Greve <greve@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu <mailto:greve@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>> wrote:

Hi Shahin, it is not as simple as doing a subtraction of the
cesvar files. What you are trying to get is the expected variance
of your difference between the ces files (as a variance, it must
be positive). To get this you need

cesvardiff = (cesvar1+cesvar2)/(2^2)

The 2^2 is the number of inputs (2) squared.

doug

SHAHIN NASR wrote:

Hi,

I have generated two different functional connectivity maps
for two different ROI-based seeds. These maps are based on
group-average of the same subjects (generated by using
separate isxconcat-sess commands ), and now I want to see the
difference map. To do so, I used mris_calc as below.
> mris_calc -o diff_map/rh.ces.nii map1/rh.ces.nii sub map2/rh.ces.nii

Also, to generate the rh.cesvar.nii file I used this command:
> mris_calc -o diff_map1/rh.cesvar.nii map1/rh.cesvar.nii
sub map2/rh.cesvar.nii

But then when I used the glmfit with WLS option as below:

> mri_glmfit --y rh.ces.nii --osgm --glmdir rh.ffx.osgm.wls
--nii --mask ../rh.mask.nii --yffxvar rh.cesvar.nii
--ffxdofdat ../ffxdof.dat --surf fsaverage rh --wls rh.cesvar.nii

I faced an error saying: "Error: MRInormWeights: values less
than or eq to 0" which I assumed is related to an error in
rh.cesvar.nii file (am I right?). Would you tell me how can I
fix this problem?

P.S.: please note that sequence of subjects and all MRI
parameters are exactly the same between the two maps.

-- Shahin Nasr

PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience
Martinos Imaging Center, MGH
Harvard Medical School

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