If I may grab this opportunity...
The original software (BAMM) that used these statistical methods has now
got a completely new front-end. The paper that describes the software
best is one of the the FIACs paper (Suckling et al, HBM 27:425-433),
www-bmu.psychiatry.cam.ac.uk/publications/suckling06per.pdf
The current version of the software is called CamBA. The nonparametric
methods (time series analysis, group mapping, and 2nd-level ANOVA and
factorial designs) are all still there. The new program now uses the
NifTI file format (4D files for time series, 3D files for maps, and 5D
[!] for null distributions). Interaction with SPM and FSL should be
straightforward.
Interaction is done in two ways: either by scripting (very direct,
mostly 1 line/processing step) or a Java-based GUI, which controls the
analysis in a spreadsheet-like window. Everything is done from 1 view,
in the time series analysis the rows of the spreadsheet are the 4D
files, in the higher-level designs they're the statistic files from
lower-level analyses.
Reporting is done in HTML pages and png images. The FIAC data (in NifTI)
was re-analysed in CamBA, see fs2.psychiatry.cam.ac.uk/~amw71/FIAC
CamBA is available via
www-bmu.psychiatry.cam.ac.uk/software and
sourceforge.net/projects/camba
With best wishes
Alle Meije Wink
> Well, my short answer is that unfortunately SnPM cannot perform a 1st
> level analysis on fMRI data. If you are interested in using a
> permutation test for an fMRI time series, then you perhaps might be able
> to use a permutation test with wavelet transformation. I am not familiar
> with the method myself, but you can learn more about it in
>
> Bullmore et al.,
> Colored noise and computational inference in neurophysiological (fMRI)
> time series analysis: resampling methods in time and wavelet domains.
> Human Brain Mapping 12: 61-78
>
> -Satoru
>
> Satoru Hayasaka PhD ----------
> Assistant Professor, Public Health Sciences & Radiology
> Wake Forest University School of Medicine
> (ph) +1-336-716-8504 / (fax) +1-336-716-0798
> (email) shayasak _at_ wfubmc _dot_ edu
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