It should be roughly the sum of the dofs of the individual subjects. Why 
are you using a fixed-effects model?
doug

SHAHIN NASR wrote:
>    Thanks Doug. Just one related question. Should I also generate a 
> new ffxdof.dat file for this map? I assumed that ffxdof depends on the 
> number of subjects (session) and since number of subjects (sessions) 
> is the same between the two groups then I can use those values, 
> generated by isxconcat-sess for either map1 or map2. Right?
>
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Douglas N Greve 
> <gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu <mailto:gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Shahin, it is not as simple as doing a subtraction of the
>     cesvar files. What you are trying to get is the expected variance
>     of your difference between the ces files (as a variance, it must
>     be positive). To get this you need
>
>     cesvardiff = (cesvar1+cesvar2)/(2^2)
>
>     The 2^2 is the number of inputs (2) squared.
>
>     doug
>
>
>     SHAHIN NASR wrote:
>
>         Hi,
>
>          I have generated two different functional connectivity maps
>         for two different ROI-based seeds. These maps are based on
>         group-average of the same subjects (generated by using
>         separate isxconcat-sess commands ), and now I want to see the
>         difference map. To do so, I used mris_calc as below.
>         > mris_calc -o diff_map/rh.ces.nii   map1/rh.ces.nii   sub  
>         map2/rh.ces.nii
>
>         Also, to generate the rh.cesvar.nii file I used this command:
>          > mris_calc -o diff_map1/rh.cesvar.nii    map1/rh.cesvar.nii
>           sub   map2/rh.cesvar.nii
>
>         But then when I used the glmfit with WLS option as below:
>
>         > mri_glmfit --y rh.ces.nii --osgm --glmdir rh.ffx.osgm.wls
>         --nii --mask ../rh.mask.nii --yffxvar rh.cesvar.nii
>         --ffxdofdat ../ffxdof.dat --surf fsaverage rh --wls rh.cesvar.nii
>
>          I faced an error saying: "Error: MRInormWeights: values less
>         than or eq to 0" which I assumed is related to an error in
>         rh.cesvar.nii file (am I right?). Would you tell me how can I
>         fix this problem?
>
>         P.S.: please note that sequence of subjects and all MRI
>         parameters are exactly the same between the two maps.
>
>         -- 
>         Shahin Nasr
>
>         PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience
>         Martinos Imaging Center, MGH
>         Harvard Medical School
>
>
>     -- 
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>     MGH-NMR Center
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