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Dear Christopher,

> I am running SPM96, using a covariate for global normalization. If I
> choose grand mean scaling to 100 and save normalized data, what will
> units of response reflect: percentage of the global covariate?

The units in this instance will be the same as the original image
values (e.g. counts/sec or T2* signal) scaled so that the grand mean is
100.  They can be thought of as percentages of the grand mean.

> I am assuming that under these circuamstances I can still use SE{Y} for
> one group to calculate an effect size for the mean effect in the other
> [for a given SPM]- yes?

Absolutely.

I hope this helps - Karl


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