Re: [Freesurfer] nuisance variable in qdec

2013-12-05 Thread Douglas N Greve
Yes, though I think it is the same as adding the Burden column. doug On 12/05/2013 02:04 PM, Cat Chong wrote: > Dear Doug, > Thank you for your instantaneous response! > Correcting for disease burden was actually a reviewer comment. > We calculated mean cortical thickness estimates for regions th

[Freesurfer] nuisance variable in qdec

2013-12-05 Thread Cat Chong
Dear Doug,   Thank you for your instantaneous response!   Correcting for disease burden was actually a reviewer comment.  We calculated mean cortical thickness estimates for regions that showed vertex-wise age-related cortical thickness differences between groups (using qdec) and then graphed out

Re: [Freesurfer] nuisance variable in qdec

2013-12-05 Thread Douglas N Greve
you cannot do this in QDEC. In fact, it is a tricky analysis to do properly. For each group you will need an offset regressor and an age regressor, but only the patient group will have a burden regressor. This cannot be done with an FSGD file either. You will have to create your own design mat

[Freesurfer] nuisance variable in qdec

2013-12-05 Thread Cat Chong
Dear FreeSurfer Experts,   We are trying to run a between group analysis (1 patient group 1 control group) within qdec. We are interested in investigating age-related thickness differences between groups.  Our fixed factors are ‘group’ and our continuous covariate is ‘age’. We would like to contr