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Name
["intergroupavg-sess"] - computes random effects analysis between 2 groups or subject populations (i.e. controls vs. patients)
Synopsis
["intergroupavg-sess"] -analysis <analysisname> -contrast <contrastname> -group1 <group1name> -group2 <group2name> -intergroup <intergroupname>-space <spacename>
Arguments
Positional Arguments
none |
Required Flagged Arguments
-analysis analysisname |
session-level functional analysis name |
analysis created by ["mkanalysis-sess.new"] and used with ["selxavg-sess"] on each individual session |
|| -contrast contrastname || contrast used in the random effects avg || contrast created by ["mkanalysis-sess.new"] and used when running ["isxavg-re-sess"] If the contrast is multivariate, then sig and minsig maps will be produced ||
-group1 groupname |
name of group1 (positive) |
group name given when calling ["isxavg-re-sess"]. This refers to the group that will be "positive |
-group2 groupname |
name of group2 (negative) |
group name given when calling ["isxavg-re-sess"]. This refers to the group that will be "negative |
|| -intergroup intergroupname || name of intergroup average || name given to the intergroup average. This name is used in subsequent commands just as one would use the session id or the group name || || -space spacename || space in which to average (tal, sph) || Space in which {\em isxavg-re-sess} was run. This is the space that each individual was transformed to so that all individuals across all groups are registered. Options are: tal (for talairach), sph (for spherical surface-based), or the name of a region-of-interest (created with ["func2roi-sess"] ||
Optional Flagged Arguments
-polarity +1 or -1 |
only consider voxels with avg > 0 (or < 0) |
-spacedir dir |
default is spacename |
-hemi hemisphere |
with sph space <lh rh> |
-umask umask |
set unix file permission mask |
-scriptonly |
don't run, just generate a script |
-version |
print version and exit |
Outputs
Description
["intergroupavg-sess"] is a program for intergroup averaging. The individual groups are assumed to have been averaged using a random effects model (see ["isxavg-re-sess"]). Inter-group statistics are computed based on a t-statistic. The average and variance for each group are computed according to a random effects model. To run the random effects averaging, the user chooses a contrast which is used to collapse the hemodynamic responses across time and condition to yield a single number for each subject. The group average will be the average of this number over all the subjects. The group variance will be the variance of this number across all the subjects in the group.
Examples
Example 1: Spherical
["intergroupavg-sess"] -analysis <analysisname> -contrast <contrastname> -group1 controls -group2 patients -intergroup controlsVpatients-space sph -spacedir <outdir from ["sphsmooth-sess"]
== Example 2: Volume/Talairach== ["intergroupavg-sess"] -analysis <analysisname> -contrast <contrastname> -group1 controls -group2 patients -intergroup controlsVpatients-space tal -polarity 1
performs a between-group average but only considers voxels that are <1 for the given contrast for each of the two groups (i.e. only considers voxels that were "red" in the given contrast for controls and for patients, and only uses these voxels in the between-group contrast
Bugs
None
See Also
["othercommand1"], ["othercommand2"]
Links
Methods Description
description description
References
["References/Lastname###"]
Reporting Bugs
Report bugs to <analysis-bugs@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>