Hi,
The output from the command will be a matrix of numbers (in text format) that is
the coordinate values by the number of subjects. I'm not sure what quality
control you had in mind, but it would allow you to look for outliers or things like
that if you liked.
All the best,
Mark
On 7 May 2012, at 05:19, Lukas Scheef wrote:
> Dear Mark!
>
> Thank you very much for the fast response. So I have to reduce the analysis to pairwise comparisons, which also should work. However, what exactly will be saved using the mentionend option? Could one use the files for any kind of quality control?
>
> All the best,
>
> Luke
>
> Am 05.05.2012 um 02:51 schrieb Mark Jenkinson <[log in to unmask]>:
>
>> Dear Luke,
>>
>> I'm afraid we are still working on a longitudinal version of vertex analysis.
>> You can't implement a paired t-test with the current FIRST tools.
>> However, you could save out the vertex coordinates using the --saveVertices
>> option and then use other statistical packages to implement a multivariate
>> paired t-test.
>>
>> Hope that helps.
>> All the best,
>> Mark
>>
>> On 5 May 2012, at 05:49, Luke wrote:
>>
>>> Dear FSL-Experts!
>>>
>>> I wonder if FIRST can be used for longitudinal studies ( in my case 2 groups (Placebo / Intervention) examined at two points (T1/T2)). The analysis of the subcortical volumes via fslstats already revealed the expected result. Now I would like add a vertex analysis to infer shape changes due to the on the effect of the intervention. Is there any issue of theoretical or practical kind that might argue against performing a vertex analysis in this situation? Any recommendations for the first_utils options in this situation?
>>>
>>> Best wishes and many thanks in advance,
>>>
>>> Luke
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