Dear Nanette,
what is suggested in the SPM manual is to edit a job MAT-file, not an
SPM.mat file containing the design matrix itself (this is the outcome of
the job MAT-file, once it has been run).
You will see in this SPM5 batch script how this can be done:
http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm/data/fluency/verbal_fluency_spm5_batch.m
Best regards,
Guillaume.
FREEDMAN NANETTE wrote:
> I'm trying to follow the example of Verbal Fluency PET data in Chapter
> 31 of the SPM5 manual, since it is not dissimilar from the example of
> some PET data I'm analyzing. In this chapter, it is suggested that new
> design matrix files can be set up (with much less work in the case of
> our data as in the case of the data described in the chapter, where only
> small changes are required between one design and another) easily by
> editing the files. With what program or utility could one best edit
> these encoded files?
>
> Also looking in the archives of this list, I see strong warnings against
> editing design matrices (but no indication of how one would edit them) --
> any advice would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Nanette
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