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RFX in SPM5. Floris de Lange florisdelange@gmail.com. RFX Options. Conditions are MI LH (press left foot) and MI RH (press right foot); 8 subjects; threshold used is p<0.001 uncorrected, k>20 (arbitrary) Methods used: One-sample T-test on difference images MI LH>MI RH
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RFX in SPM5 Floris de Lange florisdelange@gmail.com
Conditions are MI LH (press left foot) and MI RH (press right foot); 8 subjects; threshold used is p<0.001 uncorrected, k>20 (arbitrary) • Methods used: • One-sample T-test on difference images MI LH>MI RH • Paired-samples T-test on MI LH and MI RH • Measurements assumed independent • Measurements assumed dependent • Two-samples T-test on MI LH and MI RH • Multiple regression analysis on MI LH and MI RH • Full factorial • Flexible factorial Compare 2 conditions
Paired T-test: dependence/indepence Independent: error covariance matrix = identity matrix (check SPM.xVi.V!) Dependent: error covariance matrix will be estimated (check SPM.xVi.V!)
Dependence/independence doesn’t make a difference here, because there’s only one sample to estimate covariance from Paired-samples T-test indep.: same
Multiple regression analysis: same = identical
Two-samples T test indep: worse Degrees of freedom ↑ Variance term ↑
the correlation between the variance of the subjects in the first group and those in the second group is estimated • this reduces the error term Two-samples T test dep: better
Two-samples T test: dep vs indep Dependent measures Independent measures
Two-samples T test: con images = Dependent measures Independent measures
Two-samples T test: ResMS images < Dependent measures Independent measures Error terms is reduced for dependent measures by modelling the dependencies
There are two types of models: • Models that specify the subject factor (e.g., one-sample, paired-samples, MRA if you specify the factor yourself) • Models that estimate the subject factor (e.g., two-samples T-test, full factorial, flexible factorial; measurements are dependent) • If you don’t specify the subject factor, but also don’t estimate the error covariance, you are likely to shoot yourself in the foot because the errors will be assumed to be independent, and simply added, leading to much higher estimates of the error term Summary
It can be statistically beneficial to specify the model as a “between-subjects” model without modelling subject, but instead estimating the subject-induced regularities by specifying that measures may be dependent • SPM5 manual suggests to do analyses this way • But is it valid? Aren’t df’s inflated? Is it valid to use 2-sample T test dep? SPM5 manual