One comment on power calculations. You cannot do the power calculations after you have completed the study. Any reviewer/referee asking you to compute the power should be politely informed that post-hoc power analyses are not valid and are biased (because you would be computing the power of the observed effect).

What you want to do is to compute the power of the experiment before you conduct the experiment. You want to be able to say that to compare an effect of X, we have have Y% power to detect the effect with N subjects.

G*Power is an excellent program to compute power - although it doesn't do it on the entire image.

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On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 10:25 AM, Douglas N Greve <greve@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> wrote:

We don't have a way to do a power analysis directly from QDEC. I have
some matlab code that does it for univariate analysis.

In the QDEC output folder, you will see a glm folder. In that there will
be folders for each contrast. In the contrast folder, you will see an
F.mgh file which will be the F-values. You can convert this to a t =
sign(gamma.mgh)*sqrt(F)

doug


On 10/28/2013 07:27 AM, amirhossein manzouri wrote:
> Hi
> Would you please let me know if it is possible to calculate the power for a group comparison in cortical thickness? Also, a referee is requesting F-values and T map , are they generated by q-dec?
> That would be great if I can get an answer in more detail since I have
> seen the post in FAQ, just need more information in detail regarding
> calculating the power !
> --
> Best regards,
> Amirhossein Manzouri
>
>

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