Permutaion (of residuals) and factorial designs

[Michael Wibral]

Dear Eric, dear fieldtrip users,

this might sound like nitpicking but, we all routinely seem to analyse the interaction of a factorial design using permutation testing. The example is this: we have two experimental conditions (that we want to compare) and record task and baseline intervals in each. Clearly this is a 2x2 design (task/base and cond1/cond2 are the respective levels of the two factors). What we all do to deal with this is that we compute residuals - either by subtracting the baseline values or normalizing to them and then do a (restricted) permutation between the conditions on these task-base residuals. We are interested in the interaction between the task/base factor and the cond factor.

Anything wrong here or anything particular about this case that saves us from the fundamental difficulties of interaction testing?

Michael
 


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Von: "Eric Maris" <e.maris at DONDERS.RU.NL>
Gesendet: Sep 29, 2010 11:18:06 AM
An: FIELDTRIP at NIC.SURFNET.NL
Betreff: Re: [FIELDTRIP] Coherence differences and factorial designs

>Dear Suresh,
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>>     In a fixed effects context I have been obtaining coherence
>> estimates. I have been reading Maris et al 2007 and the theory there
>> describes how to test between two different conditions
>> I would like to extend the theory in that paper (2.7.1) to k sample
>> (one factor eg 1 x 3 ANOVA) and two-way (e.,g. 2 x 2 designs). I was
>> wondering if anyone had attempted such a thing if it can be done, and
>> in particular how one might go about constructing an apprppriate test
>> statistic and surrogate distribution? Prior implementation in fieldtrip
>> isnt needed its more the theory behind it I am asking about
>
>Statistical comparison of coherence estimates in k samples is discussed by
>Amjad et al (2007) in J. Neurosc. Methods.
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>In the permutation framework there is no analogue of the factorial ANOVA
>(involving both main and interaction effects) for the simple reason that the
>interaction null hypothesis cannot be tested in the permutation framework.
>There is at least one thread in the Fieldtrip Discussion list that deals
>with this issue. However, it is possible to test multiple conditional null
>hypotheses (main effect of one factor separately for each of the levels of
>another factor) and this comes close to an interaction effect test.
>
>
>Good luck,
>
>Eric Maris
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>> Thanks for your help,
>> Dr Suresh Muthukumaraswamy
>> 
>> Suresh Muthukumaraswamy, PhD
>> CUBRIC
>> Cardiff University
>> Park Place
>> Cardiff, CF10 3AT
>> United Kingdom
>> email: sdmuthu at cardiff.ac.uk
>> Phone: +44 (0)29 2087 0354
>> http://www.cf.ac.uk/psych/contactsandpeople/researchstaff/muthukumarasw
>> amy-suresh-dr-overview_new.html
>> 
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