Hi Donna,

I would like to test the paired difference between left and right
hemispheres on 3D coordinate position and sulcal depth. Please find the
uploaded input files and help me figure out how to do this.

Thanks a lot.

Gang



> My versions of caret_command can read them all, and the coords/metric all
> have roughly 164k nodes -- all good.
> But I still don't have your command line, or inputs like I'd expect to a
> paired t-test, if that's what you're doing.
> For each subject, I have a metric that has a column for 3D variability and
> a column for areal distortion. I doubt that you want to get a paired
> difference between these disparate measures.
> What you need, as input to the paired t-test, is a composite metric/shape
> with one column per subject. One composite might have left sulcal depth,
> the other right, for example. "It doesn't get any more paired than the left
> and right hemispheres of a person's brain." --Tom Nichols
> But it could be thickness at different timepoints, twins' thickness maps
> -- anything you can pair. But the two composite input files should have
> equal numbers of columns, and those columns should be paired (i.e., first
> col of each file corresponds to one another; second col of each file
> corresponds to one another; and so on).
> Hope this helps.
> On Apr 4, 2012, at 1:02 PM, gangli wrote:
> >* Hi Donna,
> *>
> * *>* I have uploaded several generated subjects along with metric and
> shape files. Can you please help me figure out how to average and compose
> the shape and metric files?
> *>
> * *>* Thanks a lot.
> *>
> * *>* Gang
> *>
> * *>* Hi Gang,
> *>* Could you provide the full command line and/or output from running
> the script? It might not work in Windows, but on Linux or MacOSX command
> line you would do:
> *>* paired.sh >& paired.log
> *>* Then upload paired.log here:
> *>* http://pulvinar.wustl.edu/cgi-bin/upload.cgi
> *>* Depending on what information that gives me, I may want to see more
> information, like your mean midthickness, distortion metric, composite
> scalar files, etc.
> *>* Also, it would be helpful if when you reply you keep the prior
> message history in your reply, so that I don't have to go to the archives
> to remind myself of what you have already done. It is easy to get users
> confused -- particularly when I am using this stuff heavily myself.
> *>* Thanks much,
> *>* Donna
> *>
> * *>* On Apr 4, 2012, at 9:07 AM, gangli wrote:
> *>* > I am using caret_distribution_Windows32.v5.65 and the input is
> *.metric file generated in previous discussion. Thanks.
> *>* >
> *>* > Regards,
> *>* > Gang
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