help > RE: Possibly different connectivty values
Sep 4, 2015  09:09 AM | Pravesh Parekh - National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences
RE: Possibly different connectivty values
Dear Dr. Alfonso,

Please find attached a zip file containing both the project files and the second level analysis folder contained inside each of them. Please let me know if these are the files that you were referring to in your response.
Please do let us know if the differences are because of some error that might have occurred on our end!


Regards
Pravesh Parekh

Originally posted by Alfonso Nieto-Castanon:
Dear Pravesh,

You are right that, from your description, you should be seeing exactly the same results in those two analyses. If you could please send me the two ROI.mat files (one associated with each ROI-to-ROI analysis), and perhaps also the two conn*.mat files (one associated with each conn project), perhaps that could help me figure out what these differences may reflect.

Best
Alfonso
Originally posted by Pravesh Parekh:
Dear Dr. Alfonso,

We have two groups of subjects: healthy (HS) and patients with schizophrenia (SZ). The SZ group can be sub-divided into patients with hallucinations (AVH+) and those who do not have hallucinations (AVH-). We ran two set of analysis (independent conn projects): the first had
HS and SZ groups (included as second level covariates). In the second project, we only included SZ subjects and had two second level covariates (AVH+ and AVH-). Both projects were analysed with the same parameters till second level.

For Project1 (HS and SZ groups):
- Selected only SZ group (in the subject effects list)
- Clicked on Results Explorer
- Selected all ROIs (and de-selected F test)

For Project2 (only SZ group; AVH+ and AVH-)
- Selected All Subjects in the subjects effects list
- Clicked on Results Explorer
- Selected all ROIs (and de-selected F test)

Upon comparing both the outputs, we found that:
- Overall connectivity pattern is almost the same (there are some minor differences)
- There is a difference in the T statistic value that we see (all values are shifted)

How do we account for the difference in the T values (as it is essentially the same set of subjects that are being analysed)? Shouldn't the values be same or are we doing something wrong somewhere?

The output from both the runs are also attached. We have ensured that in both the runs the same condition was selected (and we in fact did run the analysis a second time just to be sure).

Regards,
Pravesh Parekh

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RE: Possibly different connectivty values
Pravesh Parekh Sep 4, 2015
Alfonso Nieto-Castanon Sep 9, 2015
Pravesh Parekh Sep 1, 2015