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From: abedi000@citymail.cuny.edu <abedi000@citymail.cuny.edu>
Date: Thursday, April 11, 2019
Subject: Fw: mriglmfit error
To: Amrita Bedi <amibedi273@gmail.com>




Amrita Bedi
Biomedical Engineering - Class of 2018
The City College of New York - CUNY




From: abedi000@citymail.cuny.edu
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2019 8:38 AM
To: Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
Subject: mriglmfit error
 

Good morning Freesurfer developers,


While using the mri-glmfit command on 20 subjects. I got the following error-

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ERROR: matrix is ill-conditioned or badly scaled, condno = 1e+08
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Possible problem with experimental design:
Check for duplicate entries and/or lack of range of
continuous variables within a class.
If you seek help with this problem, make sure to send:
  1. Your command line:
    mri_glmfit.bin --y test.10B.mgh --fsgd TEST.fsgd --C TEST.mtx --surf fsaverage lh --cortex --glmdir test.glmdir
  2. The FSGD file (if using one)
  3. And the design matrix above
Attempting to diagnose further
SumSq: Min=0.000000 (col 6), Max=228.790298 (col 3)
 The scale is much different between columns 6 and 3, you may want to
 normalize by subtracting the mean and dividing by the standard deviation.
Column 6,  all values are 0.

  1. My command line used was-

mri_glmfit --y test.10B.mgh --fsgd TEST.fsgd --C TEST.mtx --surf fsaverage lh --cortex --glmdir test.glmdir


2. My fsgd file and design matrix file are attached.

Thank you for your help.




Amrita Bedi