The way I understand your analysis is as follows:
21 subjects in the before treatment condition
(same) 21 subjects in the after treatment condition
You want to compare the two conditions - this you do with a paired t-test within a Mixed effects analysis
Say you have two runs for each condition? You would average across these runs using a Fixed effects analysis before using the COPE files of the Fixed effects analysis to do the Mixed effects paired t-test.
Hope this makes sense.
Liam.
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Laboratory for Molecular Neuroimaging
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Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 12:59 PM
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Subject: [FSL] higher level FEAT
Hi - I have a group of 21 patients who underwent two fMRI sessions before
and after treatment. I would like to compare activation before and after
treatment on patient-by-patient basis and then do a higher level regression
analysis to see whether change in group activation predicts behavioural
improvement. For the within subject analysis I am using a higher level
t-test comparing the two before and two after fMRI sessions. My questions
is: Should I use a fixed effect analysis for this step?
Also, for the higher level (third level) analysis that includes the whole
group, should I use the COPEs as inputs? Hope this makes sense. Thanks -
Julius
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