Hi Emily, it is just performing a two "group" analysis, where one of 
your groups only has a single subject. There is nothing wrong with what 
you did, it all comes down to what conclusion you are trying to draw 
from it. I think it is ok for a case report.
doug

Emily Rogalski wrote:
> Using q dec we have run a single patient versus a group of healthy 
> control subjects (n=20ish) and found significant differences even 
> after FDR correction.
>
> Could you describe the process qdec uses to compute these differences?
> Is it legitimate to report these single subject maps?
> Practically this is very useful for case reports but Im concerned 
> about violating statistical rules.
>
> Thanks!
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