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HI - I think that looks sensible - if you want to cross-check you should be able to output an f-test and compare that too.
Cheers.


On 5 Nov 2010, at 18:58, Filippo Migliorati wrote:

> Hallo FSL experts,
> I'm sorry for the newbie question. I would like to know how to compute the R-squared to determine the proportion of variance that a glm model explains.
> I have fitted to some resting-state data a model made of 19 EVs (18 of them are of no-interest) using fsl_glm, demeaning both the data and the design matrix (I haven't used the options to normalize them to unit variance).
> Since R-squared can be calculated as 1-(residual_var/total_var), I have used fslmaths as follows:
> 
> fslmaths filtered_functional_data -mul ROI_mask -Tstd -sqr TotVar          -----> to compute the total variance of the signal in a given ROI
> fslmaths fsl_glm_results_sigsq -div TotVar -sub 1 -abs R-squared
> 
> Is that correct?
> Thanks,
> Filippo Migliorati


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