Dear Priyantha,
>Dear Jesper,
>
>Thanks for the reply.
>
>Actually, I have been doing my second level analysis using con***.img from
the
>first level , exactly as you suggested.
>
>What happened was that I read that it is possible to use adj.meand fMRI
summary
>statistics in the RFX type of analysis and that the adj. meansfMRI is a
way of
>summarizing ones data.
>
>I had no intentions of using the adj. means to do the stat. However I
wanted to
>explore what SPM99 does and how it does it.
>Now, given the constraints that you mentioned in your reply, what's the
purpose
>of then having an option to collapse data in an fMRI exp. I mean, how does
one
>use the adj means data, and for what purpose , to what end?
I can't honestly think of a situation when I would use AdjMean. I guess it
is there mainly for historical reasons.
Jesper
Jesper Andersson
Wellcome Dept. of Cognitive Neurology
12 Queen Square
London WC1N 3BG
phone: 44 171 833 7484
fax: 44 171 813 1420
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