[FieldTrip] Averaging on a random sample

[Eelke Spaak]

Dear Emilie,

You are not providing a FT data structure to ft_timelockanalysis
(which you should), instead you are providing the raw cell array of
trials (which you shouldn't). Hence, FT complains that the data is not
in a structure that it can work with.

There is a cfg-option cfg.trials, which you might like to use instead.

Best,
Eelke

On 21 November 2014 10:09, Caspar, Emilie <e.caspar at ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
> Dear Fieldtrippers,
>
> I have a sample of 350 trials for one condition, but for statistical
> analysis reasons I would like to split randomly this sample in two and
> average these two parts.
>
> so, I used the "randsample" matlab function which seems to work very well
> and then I averaged this selected sample:
>
>         randomhalf = randsample(cleandata.trial, 175);
>         avgFCMiddleRing = ft_timelockanalysis(cfg, randomhalf);
>
>
> However, I have the following error message :
>
> Error using ft_checkdata (line 366)
> This function requires raw or comp data as input.
>
> Error in ft_timelockanalysis (line 105)
> data = ft_checkdata(data, 'datatype', {'raw', 'comp'}, 'feedback', 'yes',
> 'hassampleinfo', 'yes');
>
> Does anyone have a solution to fix the problem?
>
> Thank you very much!
>
> Emilie
>
>