btw, if you simply "touch" the contrast mat files in the analysis 
directory, it will only regenerate the contrasts. That should save you 
some time because it won't have to re-run all of selxavg.
doug

Douglas N Greve wrote:
> I think this is due to the high DOF and probably high t-value causing 
> the significance in matlab to be computed as 0. This gets converted to 
> Inf (infinity) when the -log10(p) calculation is made, then the Inf 
> gets set to 0 when the volume is saved. The quick fix for you is to 
> change fast_selxavg3.m (in $FREESURFER_HOME/fsfast/toolbox). There is 
> a single line that reads:
>
> fsigmat = -log10(pmat)
>
> change this to
>
> fsigmat = -log10(pmat + eps(0));
>
> Let me know if this works and I'll update our source code.
>
> doug
>
>
>
>
>
> Qi Zhu wrote:
>> Dear Doug,
>>
>> I used selxavg3-sess in freesurfer 5.0 to run a big GLM analysis on a
>> monkey data set containing 147 runs. But When I check the results, I
>> found that in the voxels where the t-values should be very high were
>> turned out to have a value of zero. I checked the brainmask, the ces
>> and the cesvar values, they all look fine. It seems that only the ces
>> values in these voxels are a bit high compared to the nearby normal
>> voxels (e.g. 1.17 (ces)/0.00048(cesvar) compared to 0.74/0.00040 in a
>> nearby normal voxel). And it seems that not only me have this problem
>> (similar problem posted in the mailinglist before.
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/msg13789.html). 
>>
>> Do you know what the problem would be and how to solve it? Thanks very
>> much for your help.
>>
>> Attached please find an image of the problem.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Qi Zhu, PostDoc
>> Laboratorium voor Neuro- en Psychofysiologie
>> K.U.Leuven Medical School
>> Herestraat 49, B-3000 Leuven (Belgium)
>>  
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>

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