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Hi Anderson,

Here's the link with all the information:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1-hPZ22Vq1VOHRtaGZydDVsLUk/edit?usp=sharing

The randomise command was:
randomise -i all_FA_skeletonised -o tbss -m mean_FA_skeleton_mask -d
design.mat -t design.con --T2

Thank you!
Shengwei


On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 6:25 AM, Anderson M. Winkler <[log in to unmask]
> wrote:

> Hi Shengwei,
> Could you please attach the design files (.mat, .con, etc) and paste
> here the exact randomise call you're using?
> Thanks
> All the best,
> Anderson
>
>
> On Friday, May 9, 2014, Shengwei Zhang <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm running randomise in the last step of TBSS but not sure how to
>> configure the design matrix using GLM. The _corrp image showed nothing
>> significant, which is unexpected.
>>
>> The tbss_1 to 4 steps were run successfully. The model used is that FA is
>> linearly related to the a) presence of disease (0 or 1), b) age, c) sex, d)
>> education, e) race (1 or 2), and f) specific brain region volume normalised.
>>
>> Here's the input to Glm using the latest version of FSL V5.0.6:
>> 1. GLM Setup: "higher level/ non-timeseries design" was chosen, and #
>> inputs equals the number of participants (about 100);
>> 2. "EVs" tag in GLM: # EVs = 7 (6 covariates in previous paragraph and 1
>> error term), no voxel-dependent EVs, corresponding values were pasted in
>> the order that the participants appeared in the all_FA_skeletonise (for the
>> error term it's all ones);
>> 3. "Contrast & F-tests" tag in GLM: 1 contrast, 0 F-tests, only the
>> covariate of interest (e.g. a or e) set to 1 (assume positive correlation)
>> or -1 (negative correlation) and other EVs set to 0.
>> 4. repeat 1-3 for different covariates of interest and different type of
>> correlation.
>>
>> Then the design matrix was saved and randomise run.
>>
>> Is this correct? I read the Fslwiki page about GLM but didn't find the
>> answer. Any help is appreciated.
>>
>> Shengwei
>>
>