Hi Doug,

Can I do this by just permuting the contrast matrix and the corresponding columns
in the fsgd file?

Ed

On 26 Feb 2013, at 17:43, freesurfer-request@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu wrote:

Hi Ed, I think it is just the way you have the matrix set up. You'll 
need to alter the matrix in some way.
doug

Message: 7

Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 10:08:07 +0100

From: Ed Gronenschild <ed.gronenschild@maastrichtuniversity.nl>

Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] Problem with glmfit: matrix is

        ill-conditioned

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Hi Doug,


The condition numbers were:

- 1e+08 for problematic fsgd file

- 371.233 for previous fsgd file


I tried also v5.1, however with no succes. The matirx was still

ill-conditioned with condition number 2.80809e+07.


Cheers,

Ed


On 1 Feb 2013, at 9:53, freesurfer-request@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu wrote:


Message: 12

Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:08:11 -0500

From: Douglas N Greve <greve@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>

Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] Problem with glmfit: matrix is

        ill-conditioned

To: freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu

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Hi Ed, that sounds strange. What were the condition numbers for the

two

analyses? This should be printed out into the terminal. It is also

possible that it is a scaling issue. This should not be an issue in

5.1,

but it is possible that it could have an effect if two columns are

very

similar.

doug



On 01/30/2013 05:10 AM, Ed Gronenschild wrote:


Hi Doug,


It is indeed correct that columns 1 and 17 are highly correlated.

However,

for another version of the fsgd file, where the corresponding

class and

covariate values where identical but with other covariates (so

leading to

the same columns  1 and 17, other columns are different), all went

well.

So probably some other columns are highly correlated as well.

Anyway, what can we do about it? Just leave the offending covariate

(s)

out?


Cheers,

Ed




Message: 1

Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 12:51:23 -0500

From: Douglas N Greve <greve@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu

<mailto:greve@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>>

Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] Problem with glmfit: matrix is

      ill-conditioned

To: freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu

<mailto:freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>

Message-ID: <5101749B.4060305@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu

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Hi Ed, the problem is that your covariates are highly correlated.

Eg,

column 1 is nearly identical to column 17.

doug



On 01/24/2013 06:36 AM, Ed Gronenschild wrote:

Hi,


Running mri_glmfit ( v5.0.0, Mac OSX10.6) I got he following

error message:


ERROR: matrix is ill-conditioned or badly scaled, condno = 1e+08

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 --y lh.sib_con_cann_aangepast3.thickness.sm0.mgh

--fsgd

../../STATS/FSGD/age_gender_scan_educ_hand_cannabis/

fsgd_sib_con_cann_aangepast3.fsgd

dods --glmdir lh.sib_con_cann_aangepast3.dods.sm0.glmdir --surf

fsaverage lh --C

../../STATS/FSGD/age_gender_scan_educ_hand_cannabis/

group_thickness_gender_scan_age_educ_hand_cann.mtx


  2. The FSGD file (if using one)

  3. And the design matrix above


Please find attached the requested files.


I noticed that rows 68 and 147 of the matrix Xg.dat are identical,

and most probably caused the error.

In the fsgd file I see that the correspondig cases indeed have

identical values, although they are referring to different data.

How to proceed?


Cheers,

Ed




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