Hi Doug, 

On Thursday, October 3, 2013, Douglas N Greve wrote:

It sounds like two issues:
1. p-values not consistent with your program. What did you use to compute? Did you do a two-sided (which is what fsfast uses)?
 
I used ttest in Matlab, two sided. 

2. Using pcc maps. Why not use -m pcc?

Isn't that giving me a map per subject? How do I get the group map that is consistent with the results of mri_glmfit run on ces.nii?   

Thanks, Caspar

 

doug


On 10/03/2013 01:10 PM, Caspar M. Schwiedrzik wrote:
Hi Doug,
I loaded the pcc.nii file that I got from isxconcat-sess into Matlab and then ran a t-test against 0 over the 4th dimension. I converted the resulting p-values to -log10 and then compared them to the output of mri_glmfit, namely sig.vol.
This was the mri_glmfit command:
mri_glmfit \
--surf averagesubject hemisphere \
--y pcc.nii \
--no-cortex \
--osgm \
--glmdir analysisname
I was expecting the p-values to be the same, which apparently is not the case, unless I am doing/understanding something wrong.

By now, I am actually more inclined to use the regression coefficients instead. However, I'd still like to get pcc maps from them, if there is a way to do so in FSFAST.
Thanks, Caspar




2013/10/3 Douglas N Greve <greve@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu <mailto:greve@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>>


    On 10/03/2013 10:39 AM, Caspar M. Schwiedrzik wrote:

        Hi Doug,

        when I run a two-tailed t-test against 0 in Matlab on the Rs
        in pcc.nii that I get out of isxconcat-sess with -m pcc, and
        DOF from ffxdof.dat, I get different -log10(p) values than the
        ones that come out of mri_glmfit.

    I don't understand what you mean. Can  you elaborate?

        I am not sure why this is happening.
        In principle, I just want pcc maps as final output to show
        them on the surface (instead of p-values). So I'd be happy to
        follow your advice regarding the biasing effects of noise and
        autocorrelation and use the regression coefficients. However,
        mri_glmfit (v5.1) does not seem to output pcc maps of the
        contrasts (contrary to selxavg3-sess on the single subject
        level). How would I get those?

        Thanks, Caspar


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            On 10/01/2013 01:13 PM, Caspar M. Schwiedrzik wrote:
            > Hi Doug,
            > it would be great if you could give me some further
        advise on the
            > group analysis of functional connectivity maps.
            > Specifically, I am trying to get PCC maps for certain
        seeds, and am
            > not planning any comparison between groups.
            > Following your previous advise, I am running
        isxconcat-sess with -m
            > pcc to get the PCC maps.
            > I would then run
            >
            > mri_glmfit \
            > --surf averagesubject hemisphere \
            > --y pcc.nii \
            > --no-cortex \
            > --osgm \
            > --glmdir analysisname
            >
            > *Could you please provide some more detail on what kind of
            analysis is
            > performed when I provide pcc.nii as an input for
        mri_glmfit? Is it a
            > t-test of the Fisher-transformed r-values against 0?
            I just run a t-test of the r-values. I don't have a
        program to convert
            them to z-values, however, there are z-values that are
        created in the
            first level analysis. These are generated from the
        p-values but I
            bet it
            would give you the same thing. Use -m z with
        isxconcat-sess if you
            want
            to use the z.
            > *Is the average r-value or z-value saved somewhere?
            Which level? For mri_glmfit,  they are not, but it is not
        hard to get
            them with matlab.
            > *Do you take the autocorrelation into account (as in
        Vincent JL et
            > al., 2007. Intrinsic functional architecture in the
        anaesthetized
            > monkey brain. Nature. 447:83-86)?
            Not usually, but it could be done by not including
        -no-whiten when you
            run mkanalysis-sess. I usually use the regression
        coefficients instead
            of correlation coefficients because that they are at least
            unbiased with
            respect to noise level and autocorrelation.
            doug


            > I'd also be happy to look this up but I'd need to know
        where I can
            > find this information.
            >
            > Thanks, Caspar
            >
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