Dear Steve,
Thanks again for the advice given so far.
I have another question about Randomise analysis of TBSS data
I have two confounds, non-orthogonal to the EV of interest. I understand
that I should orthogonalise the EV wrt BOTH confounds, but am not sure,
how exactly to do it.
For beginning, I tried using the orthogonalise button in Glm Gui for one
EV and on confound, in the .mat file I get variables which are orthogonal
(dot product equals 0), but NOT AT ALL uncorrelated (I hypothesise their
won't be unless at least one of the EVs entered had mean zero!). I guess
that is not what I want, is it? Therefore in my data situation (1EV, 2
confounds) I HAVE TO pre-demean EV of interest (and the confounds as
well?), use Glm gui, copy the orthogonalised EV of interest from .mat to
new Glm matrix and the confounds to separate Glm matrix (!cannot use
the .mat as it is, since confounds have to go separately for –x option!).
Is that right?
Is it ORTHOGONALISATION which is necessary, or is “DECORRELATION” enough?
By decorrelation I mean computing the (partial in case of multiple
confounds) regression coefficients (RC) for EV dependent of confound, and
substracting RC*confound from the EV.
Or, since computing partial regression coefficients is not
straightforward, I can first orthogonalise (decorrelate) confound 1to wrt
confound 2 and then orthogonalise EV wrt confound 1 and the orthogonalised
EV orthogonalise again wrt confound 2. Is that right?
I hope I expressed clearly what is my problem and what are my hypothesis
for solution…
Thanks for any help,
Jaroslav
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