Re: [Freesurfer] testing a quadratic effect of age

2014-02-24 Thread Douglas N Greve
yes, that works too On 02/24/2014 11:20 AM, Yang, Daniel wrote: > Thanks, Doug. I will standardize the age first. > > I can also think of another way of doing this: divide the sample into > 4 age bins and treat age as a Discrete Factor with 4 levels. > > Best, > Daniel > > -- > Daniel (Yung-Jui)

Re: [Freesurfer] testing a quadratic effect of age

2014-02-24 Thread Douglas N Greve
Yes, though you might want to demean age before computing the quadratic. doug On 02/24/2014 10:13 AM, Yang, Daniel wrote: > Hi FreeSurfer Experts, > > With age as a continuous variable, qdec can test the linear effect of > age. To test the quadratic effect of age, do I just create a > curviline