Not necessarily. This error can arise if any of the columns are
linearly dependent. But try rescaling first
On 5/9/2025 8:29 AM, Ane Gurtubay wrote:
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Dear Douglas,
whenever we get this error *ERROR: matrix is ill-conditioned or badly
scaled* as in
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should we normalize the values in the fsgd file or the design matrix
(Xg.dat)?
Thank you in advance,
Ane
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Ikerbasque Research Fellow
Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL)
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