Sounds good!

Regarding creating a new volume and computing contrasts from it, what do you 
mean?  I didn't follow that.

Thanks!

Joe


On Jul 10, 2013, at 1:33 PM, Douglas N Greve <gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> wrote:

> 
> On 07/10/2013 01:29 PM, Joseph Dien wrote:
>> Sorry, not following what you are suggesting?
>> 
>> I want the second derivative for calculating the Calhoun et al 2004 
>> derivative boost measure.
>> My understanding is that to the extent that the BOLD signal deviates 
>> from the canonical hrf, the amplitude of the primary regressor will be 
>> attenuated and the variance will instead end up in the first and 
>> second derivatives (to the extent that they are able to accommodate 
>> the divergence).  By using a Calhoun measure that incorporates both 
>> the first and second derivatives, in principle I'll have a BOLD 
>> measure that is more robust to deviations from the canonical hrf.
> Sorry, it had been a while since I read that paper. I did not know that 
> they had a formulation that included the 2nd derivative.
>> 
>> However, if the way FSFAST is calculating the second derivative 
>> regressor is resulting in loss of statistical power due to shared 
>> variance with the primary regressor, then it would be best to just not 
>> include it at all in the estimation step.
> I don't know how much it will hurt the power. You'd have to look at the 
> efficiency.
> doug
> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Jul 10, 2013, at 1:21 PM, Douglas N Greve 
>> <gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu <mailto:gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> Why not just create a new volume and then compute contrasts from the new
>>> volume? What you are suggesting will work I think, but it leaves me a
>>> little nervous. The p-values will be meaningless.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> As for the 2nd derivative, I think it must be a numerical issue (it is
>>> not computed analytically). Why do you need the 2nd derivative?
>>> 
>>> doug
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 07/10/2013 12:47 PM, Joseph Dien wrote:
>>>> I'm thinking of generating a modified beta.nii.gz file where the
>>>> primary betas have been replaced with the Calhoun et al (2004)
>>>> derivative boost measure.  What do you think?  Also, please note my
>>>> question below about the second derivative as it is causing me concern
>>>> about my analysis.  Thanks!
>>>> 
>>>> Joe
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Jul 10, 2013, at 12:39 PM, Douglas N Greve
>>>> <gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu <mailto:gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> 
>>>> <mailto:gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> I think that would work. You would need to change the time stamps 
>>>>> on the
>>>>> .mat file in the analysis folder. When you re-run selxavg3-sess, it 
>>>>> will
>>>>> see that the .mat files are newer than the beta and regenerate the
>>>>> contrasts. But what are you planning to do the the beta file? It sounds
>>>>> like a potentially bad idea
>>>>> 
>>>>> doug
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 07/09/2013 10:26 PM, Joseph Dien wrote:
>>>>>> It looks as though selxavg3-sess generates the contrast analyses at
>>>>>> the same time as the beta weights.  Would it be possible to
>>>>>> run selxavg3-sess once to obtain the beta weights, modify the
>>>>>> beta.nii.gz file, and then rerun selxavg3-sess to obtain the contrast
>>>>>> statistics using the modified beta weights?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Joe
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Jul 9, 2013, at 5:08 PM, Joseph Dien <jdie...@mac.com 
>>>>>> <mailto:jdie...@mac.com>
>>>>>> <mailto:jdie...@mac.com>
>>>>>> <mailto:jdie...@mac.com>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I tried correlations and the 2nd derivative is definitely not
>>>>>>> orthogonal.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> corrcoef([X(1:207,4) X(1:207,5) X(1:207,6)])
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> ans =
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>  1.0000   -0.0000   -0.5427
>>>>>>> -0.0000    1.0000   -0.0298
>>>>>>> -0.5427   -0.0298    1.0000
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I looked at the regressors that SPM generates for the same data:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> ans =
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>  1.0000    0.0436    0.1740
>>>>>>>  0.0436    1.0000   -0.0226
>>>>>>>  0.1740   -0.0226    1.0000
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> The first derivative is not as orthogonal but the second derivative
>>>>>>> was much more orthogonal.
>>>>>>> Does this have to do with what you noted below about how the second
>>>>>>> derivative is being calculated?
>>>>>>> So does this mean I should avoid the spmhrf 2 option entirely to
>>>>>>> avoid loss of statistical power?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Thanks for the help!
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Joe
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Jul 9, 2013, at 4:34 PM, Joseph Dien <jdie...@mac.com 
>>>>>>> <mailto:jdie...@mac.com>
>>>>>>> <mailto:jdie...@mac.com>
>>>>>>> <mailto:jdie...@mac.com>> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Thanks for the quick response!  So if I wanted to use the Calhoun
>>>>>>>> 2004 approach, I should be able to use the Steffener 2010 correction
>>>>>>>> to address the violation of the assumption that the regressors were
>>>>>>>> standardized and generate a new beta.nii.gz file where the primary
>>>>>>>> beta values have been replaced with the Calhoun 2004 measure.  Can I
>>>>>>>> assume the three regressors are more or less orthogonal?  I got
>>>>>>>> non-zero numbers when I tried to test the assumption in the Xtmp.X
>>>>>>>> variable
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> sum(X(1:207,4).*X(1:207,5))
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> but not hugely non-zero so maybe just rounding errors?
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On Jul 9, 2013, at 4:16 PM, Douglas N Greve
>>>>>>>> <gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu <mailto:gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> 
>>>>>>>> <mailto:gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
>>>>>>>> <mailto:gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>> wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> On 07/09/2013 04:11 PM, Joseph Dien wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>>> I have a question about how mkcontrast-sess works.  I ran an
>>>>>>>>>> analysis using the mkanalysis-sess option spmhrf 2 so there are
>>>>>>>>>> three
>>>>>>>>>> regressors for each predictor, the primary, the latency, and the
>>>>>>>>>> dispersion.  When specifying the contrast weights for
>>>>>>>>>> mkcontrast-sess,
>>>>>>>>>> the documentation indicates that they are specified in terms 
>>>>>>>>>> of the
>>>>>>>>>> conditions as numbered in the paradigm file, not the individual
>>>>>>>>>> regressors.  Furthermore there only appears to be one contrast 
>>>>>>>>>> value
>>>>>>>>>> output for each contrast, not three.
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> How are the three regressors being handled?  I can think of 
>>>>>>>>>> several
>>>>>>>>>> scenarios:
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> 1) the contrast weights are not actually in terms of 
>>>>>>>>>> conditions (the
>>>>>>>>>> documentation is incorrect), they are actually in terms of the
>>>>>>>>>> regressors (so contrasting conditions 1 and 2 could be specified
>>>>>>>>>> as -a
>>>>>>>>>> 1 -a 2 -a 3 -c 4 -c 5 -c 6).
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> 2) the latency and dispersion regressors are being ignored (a 
>>>>>>>>>> common
>>>>>>>>>> practice).  The contrast weights should therefore be specified as
>>>>>>>>>> -a 1
>>>>>>>>>> -c 2.
>>>>>>>>> This is what happens. If you want to use the derivatives, then you
>>>>>>>>> need
>>>>>>>>> to spec -setwdelay. When you run the command, it will prompt you
>>>>>>>>> for 3
>>>>>>>>> values to use. If you spec 1 0 0, then it will be the same as the
>>>>>>>>> default. If you want to test only the first derivative, then you
>>>>>>>>> would
>>>>>>>>> spec 0 1 0. Note that the 3rd regressor is the 2nd derivative wrt
>>>>>>>>> time,
>>>>>>>>> not the first derivative wrt the dispersion parameter. You 
>>>>>>>>> cannot get
>>>>>>>>> the Calhoun 2004 value using a contrast (it is non-linear).
>>>>>>>>> doug
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> 3) The Calhoun et al (2004) approach is being used to combine the
>>>>>>>>>> three regressors into a "derivative boost" amplitude
>>>>>>>>>> measure.  The contrast weights should therefore be specified as -a
>>>>>>>>>> 1 -c 2.
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Thanks for any help you can give me!
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Joe
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Joseph Dien,
>>>>>>>>>> Senior Research Scientist
>>>>>>>>>> University of Maryland
>>>>>>>>>> 
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