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Oct 16, 2016  02:10 AM | Shady El Damaty - Georgetown University
RE: ICA: Parameter Choice and 2nd Level Effects ?
Hi Alfonso,

Ok that makes a bit of sense -- I tried calculating the degrees of freedom using the equation you listed as follows:

TR = 2.28
NumScans = 150
Filter Width = 0.09-0.008 = 0.082

NumScans *  FilterWidth/NyqFreq = 150*0.0820/((1/2.28)*.5 = 56.1

So how do I incorporate the number of subjects (N=133) to calculate the final number of components?

PS -- are there any resources I can consult to understand where you got that equation from? this is all very interesting!!

Originally posted by Alfonso Nieto-Castanon:
Hi Shady,

Those MDL estimates based on single-subject data are likely not terribly meaningful, as the plots seem to suggest. They are probably all turning out to be 56 because that may be the degrees of freedom of your single-subject data after filtering (i.e. approximately the number of frequency samples within your band-pass window = NumberOfScans * FilterWidth / NyquistFrequency). This only partially relates to the "optimal" number of components for the group-level dimensionality reduction or ICA steps, as the number of subjects in your study plays a very important role in limiting the number of components that you can reliably estimate. 

Hope this helps
Alfonso

Originally posted by Shady El Damaty:
Wow! great response Alfonso --

There are all sorts of issues I ran into trying to implement this on my own (memory issues nonwithstanding) so I have been using existing implementations. I've managed to estimate MDL for each individual subject's denoised data using the icatb_estimate_dimension.m function in the GIFT toolbox.  However I'm not too confident in the results since the MDL estimate hasn't been performed using the group level data but rather individual subjects (which all turned out to be 56...).  I've attached a plot of the MDL/AIC estimate with shaded error bars across subjects.  Does this look right to you?

Thank you so much for your continued support!!

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