VBM usually involves one image per subject, so there is no nead to do a two
level analysis. This is because the variance estimated from the residuals is
purely inter-subject.
Best regards,
-John
> I am interested in doing some VBM analyses and wanted to ask a basic
> question -
>
> I am using the optimized scripts available for download. After creating
> the template and then running the optimized vbm script, do I need to create
> estimated statistical models for each brain/subject or can I just get right
> to the basic stats? In other words do I have to do some sort of 1st level
> analysis before moving to the group analysis? I don't see how I would do
> that, but wanted to make sure before I proceeded any further.
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