Jeff,

sig.mgh actually stores the -log10(p), not p, so to get the true p-value
of say, -2 (in the sig.mgh), take 10^-2  (giving you the true p-value of
0.01).

Nick


On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 16:48 -0600, Jeff Sadino wrote:
> Hello Surfers,
> 
> I am trying to verify the p-value sig.mgh maps outputted from the
> mri_glmfit command as the first part of a more advanced analysis.  We
> have been extracting the thickness data for a single vertex from each
> of our 58 subjects in two control groups and then running a
> significiance analysis is SAS.  We thought that the output from SAS
> should match the p-value in the sig.mgh file, but the p-values do not
> match at all.  We have tested multiple data points.  Does freesurfer
> do some sort of a more advanced significance analysis that is not in
> the standard documentation?
> 
> Thank you very much,
> Jeff Sadino
> 
> 
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