The local analysis can focus either on the nodes (Local node analysis) or on the edges (Local edge analysis)
Study directory
Specify the directory where “Group1” and “Group2” are located
Data separator
If the data is in csv format, select the character that separates columns in the file. For matlab ”.mat” files, this setting is ignored
Regress data
Select if you want to regress information from the data before performing the statistical analysis. Specify a file where the regressors are stored. Note that only csv files are supported. This file should contain one line per subject (Group1 + Group2), one column with the subject filename (only the file name, eg: file_for_Subj1.csv) and one extra column per regressor The Connectome Analyzer will select the best model that fits the edge measures with the regressors, and remove the contribution of the regressors from the node measures. This is done separately for each node measure
Node measures
- Select the set of measures you want to test. They can be:
- Degree: computes the nodal degree
- Betweenness: computes the nodal betweenness
- Closeness: computes the nodal closeness
- Diameter: computes the nodal diameter
Relaxation parameters
- Decomposition method
- Automatic: decomposes the network subnetworks using the algorithm of your choice (walktrap, leading eigenvector or spinglass).
- File: provide a file containing the decomposition of the nodes into sub-regions. The file should have 2 columns and as much rows as nodes. The first column should contain the node label, ranging from 1 to the maximum number of nodes. The second column should contain the sub-region label to which the corresponding node belongs. Sub-regions labels should range from 1 to the number of sub-regions without skipping numbers
- Correction
- Select the method used for the correction for multiple testing
- Test type
- Define if the test should be parametric (Student t-test) or non-parametric (Wilcoxon test)
- Pairing
- Define if the data is paired or unpaired. If the data is paired, make sure that the paired files have the same alphanumerical rank in the two folders, otherwise R will load matrices that do not correspond
- Alternative
- Define the H1 hypothesis (Group1 != Group2, Group1 > Group2 or Group1 < Group2)
- Alpha1
- Threshold to detect significantly different sub-networks
- Alpha2
- Threshold bellow which the null hypothesis Group1 == Group2 can be rejected in favor of H1 after correction for multiple testing
- Strong
- Factor by which the p-values of non-significatively different sub-networks should be multiplied in the RMIO procedure
Directories
The local edge analysis can perform uni or multivariate analyses. Add one or several study directories, each one containing a “Group1” and a “Group2” folder
Data separator
If the data is in csv format, select the character that separates columns in the file. For matlab ”.mat” files, this setting is ignored
Mask data
Select if you want to apply a mask to the data before running the analysis. The mask should be a file containing a matrix with the same dimensions as the ones for all subjects. The Connectome Analyzer will put to zero all the values from the connectivity matrices that have a zero value in the mask
Regress data
Select if you want to regress information from the data before performing the statistical analysis. Specify a file where the regressors are stored. Note that only csv files are supported. This file should contain one line per subject (Group1 + Group2), one column with the subject filename (only the file name, eg: file_for_Subj1.csv) and one extra column per regressor The Connectome Analyzer will select the best model that fits the values of each connection with the regressors, and remove the contribution of the regressors from the connections. This is done separately for each connection
Subnetwork summary function
- MeanEdgeWeights: computes the mean of the connection values that are above zero
- Mean: computes the mean of all the connections belonging to the subnetwork (takes into account zeroes and negative values)
Relaxation parameters
- Decomposition method
- Automatic: decomposes the network subnetworks using the algorithm of your choice (walktrap, leading eigenvector or spinglass).
- File: provide a file containing the decomposition of the nodes into sub-regions. The file should have 2 columns and as much rows as nodes. The first column should contain the node label, ranging from 1 to the maximum number of nodes. The second column should contain the sub-region label to which the corresponding node belongs. Sub-regions labels should range from 1 to the number of sub-regions without skipping numbers
- Correction
- Select the method used for the correction for multiple testing
- Test type
- Define if the test should be parametric or non-parametric (Student t-test or Wilcoxon test for univariate analyses and parametric Hotelling test or permutation Hotelling test for multivariate analyses). If the analysis is multivariate and non-parametric, you can specify the number of permutations to perform to infer the distribution of the null hypothesis
- Pairing
- Define if the data is paired or unpaired. If the data is paired, make sure that the paired files have the same alphanumerical rank in the two folders, otherwise R will load matrices that do not correspond
- Alternative
- Define the H1 hypothesis (Group1 != Group2, Group1 > Group2 or Group1 < Group2)
- Alpha1
- Threshold to detect significantly different sub-networks
- Alpha2
- Threshold bellow which the null hypothesis Group1 == Group2 can be rejected in favor of H1 after correction for multiple testing
- Strong
- Factor by which the p-values of non-significatively different sub-networks should be multiplied in the RMIO procedure
- Plot results
- Check to save plots of the connections showing significantly different subnetwork measures