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On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 16:50:12 -0500, Satrajit Ghosh
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>Dear SPMusers,
>
>I have a study in which conditions are not balanced across runs.
>Therefore, run1 may have conditions 1 and 4 and run2 may have
>conditions 2 and 3.  SPM complains if I set the onsets for a condition
>to be empty. All it should translate to is an empty column in the
>design matrix, which would be eliminated when the matrix is reduced.
>The reason for entering empty conditions is that I would like to say
>each run has all the conditions, but only enter events for the
>conditions that actually exist in the run.
>
>Is this something that's part of the design intentions? Or am I doing
>something incorrectly?

As far as I can tell, SPM (SPM2 in my case) doesn't let one create empty
columns.

>
>Thanks,
>
>Satra