[FieldTrip] Performing statistics based on phase/amplitude correlation
Roemer van der Meij
r.vandermeij at donders.ru.nl
Sat Mar 19 05:59:50 CET 2011
Hi Eelke,
This is how I would approach the problem:
1) compute the inner-product of the phase and amplitude vector per
frequency pair, per trial /(element-wise product and sum)/
- resulting in a single complex number per frequency pair, per trial
2) divide this by the product of the norms of both vectors: this will
make sure the magnitude is normalized and goes from 0 to 1
2b) average over trials /(you could also do this before step 2)/
3) shuffle the trials of the amplitude and the trials of phase vector,
and compute the above for each 'randomly paired trail' /(phase of one
trial, amp of another)/
4) do this, say a 100 times or so, collecting the magnitudes of the
complex numbers. This way, you will have 100 numbers per frequency pair,
comprising a surrogate distribution of coupling
5) pick the highest number per frequency pair of the surrogate
distribution, the 100th percentile, or estimate a normal distribution to
pick a higher percentile
6) use this number per frequency pair to threshold your
averaged-over-trials coupling, anything above threshold could be
considered non-random coupling/(do keep an eye for evoked effects if
your original trials are short, as these could be quite similar for the
random coupled trials)/
This is the way Eric and I approach PAC. If I was in Nijmegen I could
explain our approach in more detail, but I'm doing a series of
lab-visits in the US (Seattle atm :))
If this doesn't work in your case, I would fake ft_freqstatistics in
thinking your correlation data was freqdata, after doing a Fisher
Z-transform on them.
Hope it helps!
Roemer
On 18-Mar-11 05:25, Eelke Spaak wrote:
> Hmm, actually my own suggestion of switching around the time and trial
> dimensions seems to be very promising (and makes intuitive sense I
> guess, having thought about it some more).
>
> Best,
> Eelke
>
> 2011/3/18 Eelke Spaak<eelke.spaak at donders.ru.nl>:
>> Dear FieldTrip community,
>>
>> At the moment, I am analysing some data to see whether a correlation
>> exists between phase and amplitude over different frequencies, and in
>> different channels. Computing the signals of interest (i.e., the phase
>> and amplitude time series) works fine, and computing the correlation
>> is also easily done with Matlab's corrcoef function. Now comes the
>> tricky part. I would like to use the FT statistics framework to assess
>> the significance of the found correlation, and use clustering in
>> frequency-frequency space to correct for multiple comparisons. I
>> understand that this requires a statfun_correlationPearson (or
>> something like it), and I do not think I'll encounter any problems
>> implementing this. Before I start doing so, however, I am not sure how
>> to pass the design and the data to the higher-level statistics
>> functions, such as ft_freqstatistics.
>>
>> My data structure is custom-imported, and contains a single 100s-long
>> trial, on which the phase/amplitude analysis should be conducted:
>>
>> data =
>> hdr: [1x1 struct]
>> fsample: 1000
>> trial: {[24x100000 double]}
>> time: {[1x100000 double]}
>> label: {24x1 cell}
>> cfg: [1x1 struct]
>>
>> The phase and amplitude time series are generated by convolution with
>> Morlet wavelets using ft_freqanalysis:
>>
>> % perform wavelet convolution for amplitude data
>> cfg = [];
>> cfg.channel = chansAmpl;
>> cfg.method = 'wavelet';
>> cfg.output = 'fourier';
>> cfg.keeptrials = 'yes';
>> cfg.width = 7;
>> cfg.gwidth = 4;
>> cfg.foi = freqAmpl;
>> cfg.toi = data.time{1}; % compute estimate for each sample
>> tfr = ft_freqanalysis(cfg, data);
>>
>> % perform wavelet convolution for phase data
>> cfg.channel = chansPh;
>> cfg.foi = freqPh;
>> tfrPh = ft_freqanalysis(cfg, data);
>>
>> where chansAmpl = {'CH10'}, chansPh = {'CH17'}, freqAmpl = 3:5:98,
>> freqPh = 2:2:30. Simply computing the correlation of interest is done
>> in the following manner:
>>
>> % extract freqs X samples matrices to compute correlations on
>> phSig = real(squeeze(tfrPh.fourierspctrm(1,match_str(tfrPh.label,
>> chansPh(k)), :, :)));
>> amplSig = abs(squeeze(tfr.fourierspctrm(1,match_str(tfr.label,
>> chansAmpl(l)), :, :)));
>>
>> % compute correlations
>> r = corr(phSig', amplSig', 'rows', 'pairwise'); % use only non-NaN rows
>>
>> The correlation matrix r I get out of this nicely corresponds to the
>> results I found by using algorithms implemented elsewhere: so far so
>> good. My (unsuccessful) attempts to use the statistics framework have
>> been variations on the following:
>>
>> % add amplitude spectrum to the TFR (which now only has fourierspctrm)
>> tfr.amplspctrm = abs(tfr.fourierspctrm);
>>
>> cfg = [];
>> cfg.method = 'montecarlo';
>> cfg.statistic = 'corr'; % I have made a (now empty) statfun_corr
>> cfg.parameter = 'amplspctrm';
>> cfg.numrandomization = 100;
>> cfg.design = real(tfrPh.fourierspctrm);
>> stat = ft_freqstatistics(cfg, tfr);
>>
>> For your information, the tfr and cfg fields look like this before the
>> call to ft_freqstatistics:
>>
>> cfg =
>> method: 'montecarlo'
>> statistic: 'corr'
>> parameter: 'amplspctrm'
>> numrandomization: 100
>> design: [4-D double]
>>
>> tfr =
>> label: {'CH10'}
>> dimord: 'rpttap_chan_freq_time'
>> freq: [3 8 13 18 23 28 33 38 43 48 53 58 63 68 73 78 83 88 93 98]
>> time: [1x100000 double]
>> fourierspctrm: [4-D double]
>> cumtapcnt: [1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1]
>> cfg: [1x1 struct]
>> amplspctrm: [4-D double]
>>
>> The statfun_corr gets a dat variable, that appears to be a column
>> vector constructed by concatenating all the samples in the amplitude
>> spectrum. How should my function treat this? I am aware that
>> specifying a 4D design matrix is a bit odd, but it does contain my 15
>> regressors X 100000 samples (X 2 singleton dimensions that correspond
>> to the 1 trial and 1 channel that I analysed). If I squeeze() the
>> matrix before calling ft_freqstatistics, I get an error 'the size of
>> the design matrix does not match the number of observations in the
>> data'.
>>
>> I realize my question is a bit vague, but I am somewhat lost as to how
>> to proceed. In short, what I want is this: (1) compute a correlation
>> (across samples) for each phase time series with each amplitude time
>> series (each time series corresponds to a single frequency); (2)
>> shuffle the phase time series around, computing correlations on the
>> shuffled data to assess significance of the observed correlation; (3)
>> prune away correlations that are isolated in frequency-frequency
>> space, retain only large clusters of correlations.
>>
>> All the documentation about the cluster-based statistics is focused on
>> comparing variables that differ across trials and/or subjects, and my
>> 'problem' might be that I only have a single trial. Chopping up the
>> data into 100000 trials, each 1 sample long, is maybe a possibility?
>> But it seems a bit artificial.
>>
>> (It would actually probably not be very difficult to implement my
>> desired functionality 'by hand', but I guess it should be possble
>> within FT's statistics framework. That would have quite some
>> advantages.)
>>
>> Many thanks in advance for any input you can offer.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Eelke
>>
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Roemer van der Meij M.Sc.
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