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GLM_Flex will handle your design without a problem.

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On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Gabor Oederland <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
>
> I ran into troubles with a 2x3x3-Within-Subject-Design. The idea is one
> group with 14 subjects, three factors, overall this makes a 2x3x3-Design (I
> ran models on single-subject level and now would like to conduct a group
> analysis based on the con images. Due to the Design, I have 18 con images
> per subject, each con images corresponding to one stimulus combination and
> contrasted against implicit baseline).
>
> I'm interested in any of the potential main effects as well as the three
> possible two-way interactions and the three-way interaction.
>
> "Flexible factorial" does not allow for any three-way interactions, so
> this option seems to be useless. The extension GLM_flex
> http://nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/harvardagingbrain/People/AaronSchultz/GLM_Flex.htmldoes not provide any solution for my design as well.
>
> Thus it seems to me that I have to run a "Full Factorial" as it is the
> only design in which I can look at three-way interactions at all. So I set
> up a model with three factors with "Independence - No" and "Variance -
> Equal". But as far as I understood based on other messages dealing with 2x2
> or 2x3 ANOVAs, this is statistically wrong for a within-subject design?
>
> Would it help to add another factor "Subject"? If not, any other ideas?
>
>
> Your help is greatly appreciated!
>
> Gabor
>