Update: Freqstatistics Now Yields Sign ificant Clusters

Michael Wibral wibral at BIC.UNI-FRANKFURT.DE
Wed Jun 17 09:24:41 CEST 2009


Hi Charles,

the plots look OK to me. Could you let us know what finally made your analysis work (if there was a single most important thing)
- that would be most helpful. 

Thanks,
Michael

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: "Charles Cook" <charles.cook at ULETH.CA>
> Gesendet: 16.06.09 22:46:18
> An: FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL
> Betreff: [FIELDTRIP] Update: Freqstatistics Now Yields Significant Clusters


> Hi all,
> 
> I just wanted to post a follow-up to my previous posted problem of being
> unable to obtain significant clusters using freqstats. I've included my code
> for what I believe (and hope...) is our success at obtaining clusters in our
> analysis, and acknowledge the help we received from the FieldTrip board
> users, in particular Michael and Eric whose suggestions were immensely
> helpful. Thanks again!
> 
> Here's our code below. Our study has both between (sex) and within group
> components (task1 vs. task2). 
> 
> =====================================================================
>  
> % this is the list of BESA datafiles in the Female Feature condition
> filename_femfeat = {
> .
> .
> .
> };
>  
> nsubj = length(filename_femfeat);
>  
> for i=1:nsubj
>   femfeat{i} = besa2fieldtrip(filename_femfeat{i});
> end
>  
> % this is the list of BESA datafiles in the Female Location condition
> filename_femloc = {
> .
> .
> .
> };
>  
> for i=11
> nsubj = length(filename_femloc);
> end
>  
> for i=1:nsubj
>   femloc{i} = besa2fieldtrip(filename_femloc{i});
> end
>  
> % this is the list of BESA datafiles in the Male Feature condition
> filename_malefeat = {
> .
> .
> .
> };
> for i=11
> nsubj = length(filename_malefeat);
> end
>  
>  
> % this is the list of BESA datafiles in the Male Location condition
> filename_maleloc = {
> .
> .
> .
> };
> for i=11
> nsubj = length(filename_maleloc);
> end
> %}
>  
> % collect all single subject data in a convenient cell-array
> for i=1:nsubj
>   femfeat{i} = besa2fieldtrip(filename_femfeat{i});
>   femloc{i} = besa2fieldtrip(filename_femloc{i});
>   malefeat{i} = besa2fieldtrip(filename_malefeat{i});
>   maleloc{i} = besa2fieldtrip(filename_maleloc{i});
> end
>  
>  
> %Read in the electrode locations for the Std81 montage
> cfg = [];
> elec = read_fcdc_elec('EGI-BESA_Standard_81_prime.sfp');
> elec.pnt = 1000*elec.pnt;
>  
> % recompute the average, except do _not_ average but keepindividual
> % this collects all identical time/frequency/channel samples over all
> % subjects into a single data structure
> cfg = [];
> cfg.keepindividual = 'yes';
> maleloc_all = freqgrandaverage(cfg, maleloc{:});
> femloc_all = freqgrandaverage(cfg, femloc{:});
> malefeat_all = freqgrandaverage(cfg, malefeat{:});
> femfeat_all = freqgrandaverage(cfg, femfeat{:});
>  
>  
> % perform the statistical test using randomization and a clustering approach
> % using the NEW freqstatistics function
> cfg = [];
> cfg.neighbourdist    = 45;
> cfg.elec             = elec;
> cfg.statistic        = 'indepsamplesT';
> cfg.minnbchan        = 0;
> cfg.clusteralpha     = 0.05;
> cfg.alpha            = 0.05;
> cfg.clustertail      = 0;
> cfg.numrandomization = 5000;
>  
> cfg.latency          = [0 1000];
> cfg.frequency        = [4 7];
> cfg.avgovertime      = 'no'; 
> cfg.avgoverfreq      = 'yes';
> cfg.avgoverchan      = 'no';
>  
> cfg.correctm         = 'cluster';
> cfg.method           = 'montecarlo';
> cfg.feedback         = 'gui';
> cfg.design           = [1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
> 21 22;   % subject number
>                         1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1  1  2  2  2  2  2  2  2  2  2  2
>  2]; % condition number
>  
> %cfg.design           = [1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 
> 10 11;   % subject number
>                         %1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1  1  2  2  2  2  2  2  2  2  2 
> 2  2]; % condition number
>                           
>                     
> cfg.uvar = 1;                                   % "subject" is unit of
> observation
> cfg.ivar = 2;                                   % "condition" is the
> independent variable
> stat = freqstatistics(cfg, maleloc_all, femloc_all);
> %stat = freqstatistics(cfg, femfeat_all, malefeat_all);
> %stat = freqstatistics(cfg, maleloc_all, malefeat_all);
> %stat = freqstatistics(cfg, femfeat_all, femloc_all);
>  
> cfg = [];
> cfg.elec  = elec;
> cfg.rotate = 0;
> %cfg.zlim = [-6 6];
> cfg.alpha = 0.05;
> cfg.label = stat.label;
> cfg.electrodes = 'labels';
> cfg.showxlim = 'yes';
> cfg.showzlim = 'yes';
> cfg.showylim = 'yes';
> clusterplot (cfg, stat);
> =====================================================================
> 
> Our results indicated the following:
> .
> .
> .
> reading time-frequency representation using BESA toolbox
> reading power on 81 channels
> not computing grand average, but keeping individual power for 11 subjects
> not computing grand average, but keeping individual power for 11 subjects
> not computing grand average, but keeping individual power for 11 subjects
> not computing grand average, but keeping individual power for 11 subjects
> 
> selected 81 channels
> selected 21 time bins
> averaging over 4 frequency bins
> 
> Warning: PACK can only be used from the MATLAB command line.
> > In fieldtrip\private\prepare_timefreq_data at 310
>   In fieldtrip\private\statistics_wrapper at 206
>   In freqstatistics at 132
>   In CMCWM2_std81 at 139
> 
> Obtaining the electrode configuration from the configuration.
> there are on average 4.7 neighbours per channel
> using "statistics_montecarlo" for the statistical testing
> using "statfun_indepsamplesT" for the single-sample statistics
> constructing randomized design
> total number of measurements     = 22
> total number of variables        = 2
> number of independent variables  = 1
> number of unit variables         = 1
> number of within-cell variables = 0
> number of control variables      = 0
> using a permutation resampling approach
> repeated measurement in variable 1 over 22 levels
> number of repeated measurements in each level is 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
> 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 
> computing a parmetric threshold for clustering
> estimated time per randomization is 0 seconds
> found 4 positive clusters in observed data
> found 7 negative clusters in observed data
> using a cluster-based method for multiple comparison correction
> the returned probabilities and the thresholded mask are corrected for
> multiple comparisons
> 
> There are 2 clusters smaller than alpha (0.05)
> Positive cluster: 1, pvalue: 0 (*), t = 100 to 450
> Negative cluster: 1, pvalue: 0 (*), t = 0 to 100
> creating layout from cfg.elec
> creating layout from cfg.elec
> creating layout from cfg.elec
> creating layout from cfg.elec
> creating layout from cfg.elec
> creating layout from cfg.elec
> creating layout from cfg.elec
> creating layout from cfg.elec
> creating layout from cfg.elec
> creating layout from cfg.elec
> 
> =====================================================================
> 
> I've also attached a jpg of the above result and our .sfp file if anyone is
> interested in further information. Thanks once again for the help!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Charles Cook
> 
> 
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