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Hi Zhou,

Yes, this is fine, but note that you need to run randomise twice, one for
A, another for B, unless none of the subjects that did A did also B (i.e.,
unless there is no overlap between A and B).

All the best,

Anderson



On 16 April 2014 14:43, Zhou Deng <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Dear FSL experts,
>
>         Our team has a big sample of about 300 people, some people did no
> finish inventory A, some did not finish
>
> inventory B, we meant to run TBSS analysis (before statistic analysis) of
> the whole sample (300), then deselect subjects
>
> according to a specific inventory.
>
>        Could  I  do this by specifying design.mat by assigning the sample
> into two groups( Group1 who had finished the
>
> inventory,  Group2 who hadn't), and only use Group1 for randomise analysis?
>
>        For example, if i have 5 subjects, subject 5 did not finished
> inventory A, could I specify design.mat, design.con like this:
>
>        design.mat:
>                          1  0  x1 0
>                          1  0  x2 0
>                          1  0  x3 0
>                          1  0  x4 0
>                          0  1  0   x5
>                   PS: x means the mean-centered score of inventory A
> (across all 5 subjects).
>       design.con
>                          0  0  1  0
>                          0  0  -1 0
>
>       Then, randomise -i AllSkeleton_FA -o tbss -m Mean_FA_mask -d
> design.mat -t design.con -n 5000 --T2 -D
>
>       Is the above listed steps ok? thanks in advance.
>
>
>
> All the best,
> Zhou
>
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