Hi Leila, does it work if you change the -refeventdur to something 
larger (eg, 2)?
doug

On 07/22/2013 06:11 AM, Leila Reddy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am running into an error with fast_selxavg3 (NaN values in XtX). Other have 
> people reported similar problems on the mailing list and I've tried 
> implementing some of the suggestions (namely, using -nowhiten and checking 
> that all events exist in my paradigm file), but I can't get rid of the error.
>
>
> I have an event-related design with very short events (duration of 1 screen 
> refresh = 16.6ms) presented at random intervals. The error only occurs for 
> the -gammafit and -spmhrf analyses and not for -fir. When I check the 
> Xtmp.mat there are indeed NaNs in the first 2 columns of the X matrix. The 
> commands I issue and the output of bugr are below.I attach the paradigm file 
> from one run of the experiment (there are 5 runs in all but I started 
> focusing on just one in order to troubleshoot). TR=2 and numTRs=172.
>
>
> Any help would be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Leila
>
>
> mkanalysis-sess -fsd bold -surface fsaverage lh -fwhm 3 -event-related 
> -paradigm VRpara.para -nconditions 1 -gammafit 2.25 1.25 -TR 2 -refeventdur 
> 0.016 -polyfit 2 -mcextreg -analysis TargDist-gammafit-sm3.lh -per-run -rlf 
> runlist -force -nowhiten
>
> mkcontrast-sess -analysis TargDist-gammafit-sm3.lh -contrast VR -a 1
>
> selxavg3-sess -s $subj -analysis TargDist-gammafit-sm3.lh
>
> Error message:
> -------------------------
> $Id: fast_selxavg3.m,v 1.100.2.2 2012/11/30 18:40:38 greve Exp $
> /APPLICATIONS/freesurfer/fsfast/toolbox/fast_selxavg3.m
> /APPLICATIONS/freesurfer/fsfast/toolbox/fast_ldanaflac.m
> /APPLICATIONS/freesurfer/matlab/MRIread.m
> -------------------------
> outtop = /Volumes/LEILA_DATA/fMRI/Rodika/EEG_IRMF
> Extension format = nii.gz
>   1 VR.mat
> nruns = 1
> autostimdur =
>
>
> outanadir = 
> /Volumes/LEILA_DATA/fMRI/Rodika/EEG_IRMF/BT/bold/TargDist-gammafit-sm3.lh
> Found 149786/163842 (91.4) voxels in mask
> Creating Design Matrix
>   ... creation time =  0.005 sec
> DoMCFit = 1
> ntptot = 172, nX = 7, DOF = 165
> Saving X matrix to 
> /Volumes/LEILA_DATA/fMRI/Rodika/EEG_IRMF/BT/bold/TargDist-gammafit-sm3.lh/Xtmp.mat
> Error using svd
> Input to SVD must not contain NaN or Inf.
>
> Error in cond (line 36)
>      s = svd(A);
>
> Error in fast_selxavg3 (line 279)
>    XCond = cond(XtX);
>   
>>> ------------------------------------------
> ERROR: fast_selxavg3() failed\n
>
>
> Output of bugr:
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> FREESURFER_HOME: /APPLICATIONS/freesurfer
>
> Build stamp: freesurfer-Darwin-lion-stable-pub-v5.2.0
>
> Kernel info: Darwin 12.0.0 x86_64
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
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