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Sharmii,

You should also remove the covariate as covariates aren't valid in
repeated-measure GLMs, only linear mixed-effects models.

Best Regards,
Donald McLaren, PhD


On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 5:24 AM, Shane Mckie <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Hi Sharmii
>
> Have you set the variance for the subject factor to equal?
>
> bw
>
> Shane
>
> Shane McKie
> Neuroscience and Psychiatry Unit
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> University of Manchester and Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre
> 0161 275 1740
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SPM (Statistical Parametric Mapping) [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Sharmili Edwin
> Sent: 19 July 2016 08:26
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> Subject: [SPM] Flexible Factorial design taking very long
>
> Dear SPM experts,
>
> I'm running a seed based connectivity analysis with resting state data and
> a pharmacological intervention.
>
> I have thirteen subjects with four intervention doses and seven timepoints
> (4x7).
>
> So for each subject I have 28 conditions. So far I have used a full
> factorial design. To consider Subject as a factor, I would like to run a
> flexible factorial design. I'm also including one covariate.
>
> The fullfactorial model took only a few minutes on a server using matlab
> 2014b.
>
> However, the flexible factorial design is running more than a week. It is
> still checking for temporal non-sphericity.
> I'm not getting any error message. At some point matlab crashes.
>
> Do you know what might be wrong or what i could improve?
>
> sharmili
>