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Hi Doug,
Thanks for getting back to me! I’ll have a go at the command-line stream and see if that makes a difference.
Many thanks!
James
James Karantonis
PhD Candidate | Magnetoencephalography Technician
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Centre for Mental Health | Faculty of Health and Design
Swinburne University of Technology
400 Burwood Road, Hawthorn 3122

Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre |
Department of Psychiatry | FMDHS
The University of Melbourne & Melbourne Health
Level 3, Alan Gilbert Building, 161 Barry St. Carlton, VIC, 3053
From: <freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> on behalf of "Greve, Douglas N.,Ph.D." <DGREVE@mgh.harvard.edu>
Reply-To: Freesurfer support list <freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
Date: Wednesday, 11 September 2019 at 1:20 am
To: "freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu" <freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] Command failed in QDEC
It might be that the design matrix is ill-conditioned. Did it print
anything to the terminal? Also, we are not really supporting qdec
anymore, so you can try using the command-line stream (ie, mris_preproc,
mri_surf2surf, mri_glmfit, mri_glmfit-sim)
On 9/10/19 2:36 AM, James Karantonis wrote:
>
> External Email - Use Caution
>
> Hi there,
>
> In QDEC, I have successfully imported my data tables, generated stats,
> and when I go to analyse, I get the following error: “Error in
> Analyze: command failed mri_glmfit –y…”. It seems this error only
> occurs when I use the two variables of age and ICV. Whenever I remove
> one of those variables, or add any additional variables, it appears to
> work. Specifically, this is for two comparisons, between bipolar
> patients and healthy controls, bipolar and schizophrenia patients, but
> it works for schizophrenia and healthy control comparisons. I’m
> working on an iMac running High Sierra and Freesurfer v.6.
>
> Any information on how to resolve this error would be greatly
> appreciated! I’ve attached a screenshot for reference.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> James
>
>
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