Re: [Freesurfer] longitudinal data analysis

2016-03-21 Thread John Anderson
Dear Dr Martin, Thanks you very much for your awesome clarification and your kindness!! Bests, John    Hi John, X is the design matrix. The rows are the total number of time points for all subjects, the columns the different parameters of your model. In the wiki example, the first column

Re: [Freesurfer] longitudinal data analysis

2016-03-21 Thread Martin Reuter
Hi John, X is the design matrix. The rows are the total number of time points for all subjects, the columns the different parameters of your model. In the wiki example, the first column is all 1s (intercept) the second is the time_from_baseline and other parameters that are in the matrix M

[Freesurfer] longitudinal data analysis

2016-03-21 Thread John Anderson
Hi Dr Martin I want to study the change in cortical thickness overtime in one group of subjects. I have only one group of subjects who scanned multiple times ( two time points and more) I followed the pipeline exactly as in wiki. I want to inquire about  X in this case . Is it supposed to be 1

[Freesurfer] Longitudinal data analysis

2016-01-02 Thread John Anderson
Hi Freesurfer experts, I am working on a logitudinal data analysis using freesurfer pipeline. I followed all the steps like in WIKI and the analysis was great. Kindly I have the following questions: 1. In wiki "http://freesurfer.net/fswiki/LinearMixedEffectsModels"-- in the example mentioned

Re: [Freesurfer] Longitudinal data analysis

2016-01-02 Thread Martin Reuter
Hi John, a few answers, maybe Jorge has more details when he get’s back from travel. 1. if you look at the wiki: Y = M(:,7:9), therefore these are the left and right hippo-volumes. So the plot shows the total hippocampal volume. 2. I think you need to plot them individually. Probably you

[Freesurfer] Longitudinal data analysis

2015-12-30 Thread John Anderson
Hi Martin, I am working on a logitudinal data analysis using freesurfer pipeline. I followed all the steps like in WIKI and the analysis was great. Kindly I have the following questions: 1. In wiki "http://freesurfer.net/fswiki/LinearMixedEffectsModels"-- in the example mentioned there, the