Hi Doug,

The simulation went smoothly, however, as I suspected, no clusters were
detected. I wonder if you have any thoughts about my question in the
previous email, regarding the uncorrected p values.

Thanks!
Mihaela

On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 11:09 AM, Mihaela Stefan <mikaelastep...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks, Doug, the command seems to work. I guess it will take a while to
> finish running.
>
> On a different note, I have a large data set that doesn't seem to generate
> corrected results. What's interesting is that the uncorrected results are
> consistent with our previous findings and those from the related
> literature, using smaller samples (but the technique used was VBM not
> surface analysis).
>
> In FreeSurfer, I used FDR and Monte Carlo so far with different p values
> for cluster forming threshold and clusterwise p-value. Nothing survived the
> correction. Now I am trying the permutation but I'm not too optimistic. So
> I was wondering if there's a way to report uncorrected p-values with a
> surface analysis in FreeSurfer. I know that's possible for VBM, where some
> people used uncorrected p<0.001 with a cluster size of 30 voxels or p<0.005
> with a cluster size of 60 voxels. Is there an equivalent of this in
> FreeSurfer?
>
> Thanks!
> Mihaela
>
> On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 5:33 PM, Douglas N Greve <
> gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> wrote:
>
>> Right, strictly speaking, permutationis for orthogonal design matrices
>> only, which is not the case when you have a covariate. There was a
>> recent paper by Anderson Winkler "Permutation Inference for the General
>> Linear Model" in NI in which he goes over various permutation methods
>> for non-orthogonal designs, one of which is to pretend that it is
>> orthogonal (--perm-force). I don't know whether it is appropriate for
>> your design or not.
>> doug
>>
>>
>> On 05/27/2015 04:37 PM, Mihaela Stefan wrote:
>> > Thanks! It seems that there was a white space. I ran the permutation
>> > command but now I got another error:
>> >
>> > ERROR: design matrix is not orthogonal, cannot be used with permutation.
>> > If this something you really want to do, run with --perm-force
>> > Wed May 27 16:27:50 EDT 2015
>> > ERROR: cannot find any csd files
>> >
>> > I did a group difference like here (first contrast):
>> > https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/Fsgdf2G1V
>> >
>> > Best,
>> > Mihaela
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 4:18 PM, Douglas N Greve
>> > <gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu <mailto:gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>> wrote:
>> >
>> >     Are you sure there  is not any white space after the backslash (\)?
>> >     If so, Can you run it with --debug as the first option?
>> >
>> >     On 05/27/2015 03:39 PM, Mihaela Stefan wrote:
>> >     > Hello FreeSurfers,
>> >     >
>> >     > I am trying to run a clusterwise correction following this link:
>> >     >
>> https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/FsTutorial/GroupAnalysis
>> >     >
>> >     > I would like to use the permutation simulation instead of Z Monte
>> >     > Carlo. I ran mri_glmfit-sim --help to get more information.
>> >     >
>> >     > Following an example, I ran this command: mri_glmfit-sim \
>> >     >   --glmdir lh.g2v1.glmdir \
>> >     >   --sim perm 5000 1.3 perm.neg.13 --sim-sign neg
>> >     > Then I got an error which says: --sim: Command not found.
>> >     >
>> >     > I tried again using the exact example in the help info:
>> >     mri_glmfit-sim
>> >     > --glmdir lh.g2v1.glmdir \
>> >     >   --sim mc-z 10000 3 mc-z.neg.3 --sim-sign neg
>> >     > However, I get the same error: --sim: Command not found.
>> >     >
>> >     > Does anyone know why I get this error?
>> >     >
>> >     > Thanks!
>> >     > Mihaela
>> >     >
>> >     >
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