Hi Douglas, The message stream indicates you replied to my email but I don't see your response in the email thread. I am not sure what happened. Can you please reply again?
Thank you, Tamara On 6/6/17 11:50 AM, Tamara Tavares wrote: > Hello, > > I have ran my data through the default recon-all processing stream and > am planning on analyzing ventricular volume and cortical thickness. I > was wondering whether I need to use the Qdec to complete the > ventricular volume and cortical thickness analysis, or can I export > the data (txt files found in the stats folder) and complete the > analysis on any statistical program such as SPSS or STATA? you can export > > I also noticed that Qdec needs to have the data smoothed before > analyzing cortical thickness or other surface information. Why does > the data need to be smoothed after being ran through recon-all and > before analysis? Does the smoothing just need to occur if I am running > the analysis via Qdec or do I need to complete the smoothing before > analyzing the data on any statistical program? The data does not necessarily need to be smoothed, but people usually do because it improves stats. But I thought you were doing an ROI analysis based on the first question > > Thank you in advance for your help! > > Best, > Tamara >
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