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Dear SPM users,

I have a doubt about the specification of my factorial design in a VBM
analysis.

I have a population divided into Patients and Healthy Controls (P and HC).
I'd like to test whether there exist any differences between the two
groups, removing the effect of gender, age, and TIV.

Therefore I would do an ANCOVA, but the *Design *menu in the *Factorial
design specification * only provides me with t-test, multiple regression,
ANOVA, Full factorial, and Flexible factorial. So:

1. can I choose the One-way ANOVA, setting to YES the *Design -> One-way
ANOVA -> ANCOVA *though they say that "This is only used for PET data"?

2. should I choose a *Two-sample t-test*, specifying three additional
covariates?

3. since both the *t-test* and the *One-way ANOVA* allow inserting
covariates, which are the difference between the two models?

Thank you,

elisa

--
Elisa Veronese - PhD

*Research Unit on Brain Imaging and Neuropsychology (RUBIN)*


*Inter-University Center for Behavioral Neurosciences (ICBN)University of
Udine and University of Verona, ItalyICBN
Website: http://icbn.uniud.it/tiki-index.php
<http://icbn.uniud.it/tiki-index.php>*