[FieldTrip] A question about connectivity values

[Schoffelen, J.M. (Jan Mathijs)]

Hi Masoud,

Theoretically, the Granger causality coefficient is a natural logarithm of a ratio of residual variances, where this ratio is typically >1, because the model implicitly used for the numerator has more parameters, so typically a lower residual variance. In other words, GC > 0 but can become larger than 1. 

If the input data into the algorithm are numerically not well behaved, I can imagine that the output GC will be unexpected. In your case, you estimate a series of models consisting of 62x62x6 (i.e. >18.000) parameters (for each time window). If the number of samples in your data is insufficient and/or there’s linear dependence between channels, the estimated parameters, and by consequence the spectral quantities, and the GC will not make sense.

Best wishes and good luck,

Jan-Mathijs







> On 4 Jan 2023, at 09:26, masoud via fieldtrip <fieldtrip at science.ru.nl> wrote:
> 
> Hello dear fieldtrip community
> I have been using fieldtrip for quite some time and now I am dealing with dynamic connectivity, the preprocessing of the data which I am using was done in fieldtrip as well as MVAR analysis, this is the code for calculating dynamic connectivity:
>     cfg.method = 'biosig';
>     cfg.t_ftimwin = 5;
>     cfg.toi = toi;
>     cfg.order = 6;
>     cfg.output = 'parameters';
>     mvardata = ft_mvaranalysis(cfg, data);
>     cfg = [];
>     cfg.method = 'mvar';
>     cfg.output = 'fourier';
>     freq = ft_freqanalysis(cfg, mvardata);
>     cfg = [];
>     cfg.method = 'granger';
>     stat = ft_connectivityanalysis(cfg, freq);
> so the output of connectivity (stat) is a 4-d matrix(channel, channel, frequency, windows) which for my data is (62, 62, 126, 12)
> the values of the channel x channel are mostly negative like -13.2650 , -5.7060 or between -1 and 1. 
> as my understanding the output should be between 0 and 1. So where am I doing it wrong? And if I change the method from 'granger' to 'pdc' or 'dtf' what should be the range of output? 
> thank you so much in advance 
> best regards
> Masoud
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