Re: [Freesurfer] question regarding FSGD file for coding discrete regressors

2021-11-11 Thread Zeng, Qi
External Email - Use Caution For example, if my Class CaseFemaleNonWhite has no subject, should I cancel the contrast between CaseFemaleNonWhite vs ControlFemaleNonWhite? However, that will leave my ControlFemaleNonWhite subjects unrecognized? Or it is better to cancel the race dis

Re: [Freesurfer] question regarding FSGD file for coding discrete regressors

2021-11-11 Thread Zeng, Qi
External Email - Use Caution got you, thanks Best, Zeng On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 4:06 PM Douglas N. Greve wrote: > For DODS you would add 16 zeros (8 classes times 2 continuous variables) > > On 11/11/2021 4:00 PM, Zeng, Qi wrote: > > External Email - Use Caution > So

Re: [Freesurfer] question regarding FSGD file for coding discrete regressors

2021-11-11 Thread Douglas N. Greve
For DODS you would add 16 zeros (8 classes times 2 continuous variables) On 11/11/2021 4:00 PM, Zeng, Qi wrote: External Email - Use Caution So for the DODS case, is "1 -1 1 -1 1 -1 1 -1 0 0 0 0" for the following FSGD: GroupDescriptorFile 1 Title MyStudy Class CaseMaleWhite Class C

Re: [Freesurfer] question regarding FSGD file for coding discrete regressors

2021-11-11 Thread Zeng, Qi
External Email - Use Caution So for the DODS case, is "1 -1 1 -1 1 -1 1 -1 0 0 0 0" for the following FSGD: GroupDescriptorFile 1 Title MyStudy Class CaseMaleWhite Class ControlMaleWhite Class CaseMaleNonWhite Class ControlMaleNonWhite Class CaseFemaleWhite Class ControlFemaleWhit

Re: [Freesurfer] question regarding FSGD file for coding discrete regressors

2021-11-11 Thread Douglas N. Greve
For the DOSS case, yes. On 11/11/2021 3:23 PM, Zeng, Qi wrote: External Email - Use Caution Hi  Douglas, If to set up the FSGD as below, is my design matrix for case and control comparison as "1 -1 1 -1 1 -1 1 -1 0 0"  ? GroupDescriptorFile 1 Title MyStudy Class CaseMaleWhite Class

Re: [Freesurfer] question regarding FSGD file for coding discrete regressors

2021-11-11 Thread Zeng, Qi
External Email - Use Caution Hi Douglas, If to set up the FSGD as below, is my design matrix for case and control comparison as "1 -1 1 -1 1 -1 1 -1 0 0" ? GroupDescriptorFile 1 Title MyStudy Class CaseMaleWhite Class ControlMaleWhite Class CaseMaleNonWhite Class ControlMaleNon

Re: [Freesurfer] question regarding FSGD file for coding discrete regressors

2021-11-11 Thread Douglas N. Greve
I would advice setting up the FSGD files with 8 classes based on your 3 discrete, 2-level variables, eg, MaleControlWhite then use two continuous variables Age and eTIV. You should definitely normalize the eTIV (and probably age too) On 11/10/2021 7:07 PM, Zeng, Qi wrote: External Ema

Re: [Freesurfer] question regarding FSGD file for coding discrete regressors

2021-11-10 Thread Zeng, Qi
External Email - Use Caution Hi Douglas, Just to be clear, should I recode discrete variables as numeric as sample1) or change discrete variables into strings 2) or even change the comparison groups into strings too 3)? 1) Variables Age Gender Race eTIV Input Sub001_base Control 8

Re: [Freesurfer] question regarding FSGD file for coding discrete regressors

2021-11-10 Thread Douglas N. Greve
Did you read the error message? It says: Variable 2 has character string Female Variables should be continuous numbers You have listed Gender and Race as strings, they have to be numbers (eg, 1, 2) You probably want to have these be discrete variables instead of continuous On 11/10/2021 6:20 PM

Re: [Freesurfer] question regarding FSGD file for coding discrete regressors

2021-11-10 Thread Zeng, Qi
External Email - Use Caution Hi Douglas, Here is the command line: mri_glmfit \ --y rh.thickness-rate.MyStudy.10.mgh \ --fsgd FSGD/MyStudy.fsgd dods\ --C Contrasts/Case-Control_age_gender_race_etiv.mtx\ --surf fsaverage rh \ --cortex \ --glmdir rh.thickness-rate.MyStud

Re: [Freesurfer] question regarding FSGD file for coding discrete regressors

2021-11-10 Thread Douglas N. Greve
please send your command line and full terminal output as well as the fsgd file On 11/10/2021 5:12 PM, Zeng, Qi wrote: External Email - Use Caution Hi Freesurfer experts, Here, I want to design a simple group comparison (two levels: Case vs. Control) and also count for 4 covariates