All,

I’m just looking for a little advice on constructing fsgd and .mat files. I would like to compare a healthy control sample with the data from two MDD groups. To do so I made my fsgd file to look like the following:

GroupDescriptorFile 1
Title MoneyGame_Subjects
Class Control
Class MDD
Class Anhedonic

Input REWARD111 Control
Input REWARD201 Anhedonic
Input REWARD207 MDD
Input REWARD208 Anhedonic                                                                                        
Input REWARD211 MDD                                                                                              
Input REWARD212 MDD                                                                                               
Input REWARD213 Anhedonic                                                                                        
Input REWARD215 Anhedonic
Input REWARD277 Control
Input REWARD278 Control
....

This file results in a design matrix with 3 columns.

I am interested in conducting the following analyses and I wanted to check to see if I am coding all of the .mat files correctly.

Controls vs all Patients (1 -.5 -.5)
Anhedonic vs MDD (0 1 -1)
Controls vs Anhedonic (1 0 -1)
Controls vs MDD (1 -1 0)

Thank you in advance for any help you can offer.

Avram

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Avram Holmes
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