>>>I told him it the model is a GLM with age, gender and state as covariates

This is not a sufficient description. Several design matrices could be derived from this description.

On 1/30/15 11:58 AM, maaike rive wrote:
The p value from SPSS is 0.156. I checked with a statistician, just to be sure, but he says the SPSS model is correct... (he doesn't know anything about freesurfer and FSGD files, but I told him it the model is a GLM with age, gender and state as covariates).
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Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 11:46:37 -0500
From: gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
To: freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] average values per cluster


You should report the clusterwise p-value. The p-value that you have computed is not interpretable. If it did not come out significant, then it would be worrisome, but it is only a check and cannot be used for anything. What p-value did you get from SPSS? I'd be curious to know what the source of the descrpancy is since this has happened several times now.

doug

On 1/30/15 3:25 AM, maaike rive wrote:

    Hi Douglas,

    I used the matlab code and the p value is signifiant, although
    less so than the p-value I get from the clusterwise statistics
    (0.0027 vs 0.00010). (Indeed I used an abs threshold for the
    clusterwise statistics).

    Which p-value should I report?

    Thanks,

    Maaike

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    From: r_maa...@hotmail.com <mailto:r_maa...@hotmail.com>
    To: freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
    <mailto:freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
    Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 19:48:44 +0100
    Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] average values per cluster

    No not yet; I will do so!

    > Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 13:44:33 -0500
    > From: gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu <mailto:gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
    > To: freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
    <mailto:freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
    > Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] average values per cluster
    >
    >
    > The t is correct. When the contrast matrix only has one row,
    then the F
    > is just an unsigned t. I don't know anything about SPSS so I
    can't tell
    > from what you have sent whether it is the same model or not. Try
    to get
    > SPSS to output the design matrix. Did you try the matlab code below?
    >
    > On 01/29/2015 01:40 PM, maaike rive wrote:
    > > Hi Douglas,
    > >
    > > I checked but as far as I see it I used the same models. I
    attached
    > > the SPSS model and output as wel as the FSGD file and contrast
    file
    > > (to test a diagnosis x age interaction). Now that I come to
    think of
    > > it, I think the reason for the discrepant findings is that I
    used a
    > > t-contrast instead of an F-contrast for the interaction in
    Freesurfer.
    > > Apologies I did not think about this earlier. But maybe there is
    > > something else I did completely wrong.
    > >
    > > What do you think?
    > >
    > > If it is indeed the t vs F contrast, than how should I specify
    that
    > > the contrast is an F-contrast? Is it ok to just add another
    line to
    > > the contrastfile (so
    > > 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 -1 -1 -1 -1
    > > 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 -1 -1 -1 1 1 1 1)?
    > >
    > > Thanks again,
    > >
    > > Maaike
    > >
    > > > Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 11:23:59 -0500
    > > > From: gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
    <mailto:gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
    > > > To: freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
    <mailto:freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
    > > > Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] average values per cluster
    > > >
    > > >
    > > > We get these kind of reports occasionally. When I ask people
    to confirm
    > > > that they use exactly the same design matrix in SPSS, I
    never hear
    > > back,
    > > > so I assume that it gets resolved. So please check. The
    other thing you
    > > > can do is to run in matlab, something like
    > > >
    > > > cd glmdir/contrast
    > > > X = load('Xg.dat');
    > > > y = load('ocn.dat');
    > > > C = load('C.dat');
    > > > [beta rvar] = fast_glmfit(y,X);
    > > > [F p] = fast_fratio(beta,X,rvar,C);
    > > > p will be the p-value
    > > >
    > > > If you used an unsigned cluster-forming threshold (ie, abs),
    then it is
    > > > possible that some of the voxels are pos and some are neg so
    that they
    > > > average out
    > > >
    > > > doug
    > > >
    > > >
    > > >
    > > >
    > > > On 01/26/2015 09:03 AM, maaike rive wrote:
    > > > > Dear Freesurfer experts,
    > > > >
    > > > > Sorry to bother you again, but I have two more questions about
    > > > > extracting (thickness/surface/GI) values from a certain
    cluster.
    > > > >
    > > > > As I understood, the abs.y.ocn.dat file gives the average
    values
    > > for a
    > > > > given significant cluster (e.g. a cluster where there is a
    > > significant
    > > > > AxB interaction).
    > > > >
    > > > > I may be completely misunderstanding things, but if I use
    these
    > > values
    > > > > in SPSS for further statistics and test the same
    interaction (AxB),
    > > > > than according to SPSS this interaction is /not /significant
    > > > > (corrected for the same covariates as in the FSGD file).
    > > > >
    > > > > Could you tell me what is going wrong here? I do not trust my
    > > results now.
    > > > >
    > > > > Furthermore, is it possible (and if so, how?) to extract
    the average
    > > > > values of exactly the same cluster, but in an independent
    group not
    > > > > used in the analysis, for post-hoc comparisons in SPSS?
    > > > >
    > > > > Thanks,
    > > > >
    > > > > Maaike
    > > > >
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