Hi Martin,
Now clear. Thanks.
Yawu

On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 8:50 PM, Martin Reuter <mreu...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
wrote:

>  Hi Yawu,
>
> no, that would be the simple average.
> Temporal average is the linear fit (within each subject) evaluated at the
> mid time. So if you had 10 time points at the same day and 1 a year later,
> it would look like a .5 years time point. This is used to compute
> symmetrized percent change, representing the change with respect to the
> temporal average to make it more symmetric.
>
> Cheers, Martin
>
>
> On 07/03/2015 08:43 AM, Liu Y wrote:
>
> Dear Freesurfer experts
>
>  In the command "long_mris_slopes --qdec ./qdec/long.qdec.table.dat
> --meas thickness --hemi lh --do-avg --do-rate --do-pc1 --do-spc --do-stack
> --do-label --time years --qcache fsaverage --sd $SUBJECTS_DIR", Do-avg will 
> compute
> the temporal average.  I do not quite understand  the "temporal average"  Is
> the average of baseline and followup thicknesses?
>
>  Best regards,
> Yawu
>
>
>
>
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