cross-spectral density matrix is rank deficient!

[Michael Wibral]

Hi Muthuraman,

could it be that you have removed some channels from your data and did not calculate a new headmodel/leadfield? As far as I remember this will cause a similar error message (although strictly speaking it shouldn't).

Michael


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> Hi Muthuraman,
> 
> You are warned for the rank-deficiency of the csd-matrix, because this  
> could lead to numerical instabilities when inverting this matrix.  
> However, since fieldtrip uses pinv instead of inv, this does not lead  
> to crashing scripts.
> On the other hand, the message basically is the consequence of the fact that:
> 
> -you used too few trials to simulate the csd (the total number of  
> tapers applied should ideally be > the number of channels),
> -you did not add enough sensor noise to your simulation. because you  
> typically want to simulate fewer sources than sensors (which by  
> definition makes the true source csd-matrix rank deficient) you really  
> have to add sensor noise,
> -or both.
> 
> Good luck
> 
> Jan-Mathijs
> 
> Quoting Muthuraman Muthuraman <muthuraman10 at HOTMAIL.COM>:
> 
> >
> > Hello Fieldtrippers,
> >
> > I get the warning "cross-spectral density matrix is rank deficient"   
> > when running the sourceanalysis_DICS on simulated data.
> > Any hints due to which the warning comes will be very helpfull,   
> > because the channel combination was selected for ''all" in the   
> > frequency analysis.
> >
> >
> > Thanking you
> >
> > With regards,
> > M.Muthuraman.
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