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Dear Roman,

fslmath's -ptoz option works on actual P-values, and not
one-minus-P-values.  Does that explain it?

-Tom

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 2:25 AM, Roman M <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> maybe there is something silly I am missing, but I seem to have an issue
> with using the -ptoz option in fslmaths.
>
> I have run simple Sign Test with randomise and I now want to feed the
> output to cluster (which wants a zstat). So, I use the --uncorrp option in
> randomise, then type:
>
> > fslmaths rand_vox_p.nii.gz -ptoz rand_vox_z
>
> Now, opening the rand_vox_z (i.e., the ptoz image) and the rand_tstat1
> file (also generated by randomise) in fslview it turns out that for most of
> the voxels the sign appear flipped between the T and the ptoZ image.
>
> What happened? In fact, how does ptoz even know what sign to assign to a
> given p-value?
>
> Again, sorry if I'm missing something obvious, but hopefully this will be
> easy to answer..
>
>  Cheers
>
> R
>



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