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Jun 14, 2024 03:06 PM | Carmine Gelormini
contrast specification and design matrix
Hello,
we have two groups (healthy/patients) and we want to look at if the group A has increased connectivity respsect to group B. We set the design matrix as :
1 0
1 0
1 0
1 0
1 0
1 0
1 0
1 0
1 0
1 0
1 0
1 0
1 0
1 0
1 0
1 0
1 0
1 0
1 0
1 0
1 0
1 0
0 1
0 1
0 1
0 1
0 1
0 1
0 1
0 1
0 1
0 1
0 1
0 1
0 1
0 1
0 1
0 1
0 1
0 1
0 1
0 1
However, we don't understand how to set the contrast parameter, because when set on [1 0] it seems to display all the possible edges between the 56 nodes. Instead, when using [1 -1] it display no significant result. Note that we are using the FDR method .
We are wondering which contrast specification is correct.
Thanks