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ArticleNeuroImage2020

Multiple testing correction over contrasts for brain imaging.

Bianca A V Alberton, Thomas E Nichols, Humberto R Gamba, Anderson M Winkler

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Article in NeuroImage, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

52 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Bianca A V AlbertonGraduate Program in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Universidade Tecnológica Federal Do Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil. Electronic address: biancaalberton@alunos.utfpr.edu.br.
Thomas E NicholsLi-Ka Shing Big Data Institute, University of Oxford, UK. Electronic address: thomas.nichols@bdi.ox.ac.uk.
Humberto R GambaGraduate Program in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Universidade Tecnológica Federal Do Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil. Electronic address: humberto@utfpr.edu.br.
Anderson M WinklerGraduate Program in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Universidade Tecnológica Federal Do Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil; National Institute of Mental Health (nimh), National Institutes of Health (nih), Bethesda, MD, USA. Electronic address: anderson.winkler@nih.gov.

Funding

fMRI Studies Of Pediatric Mood And Anxiety DisordersZIAMH002781 · NIMH · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH · PI PINE, DANIEL · 2009 to 2025
$41.5M
Fmri Studies Of Risk For Mood And Anxiety Disorders In ChildrenZIAMH002782 · NIMH · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH · PI PINE, DANIEL · 2009 to 2025
$28.3M
Intramural NIH HHS ZIA MH002781Intramural NIH HHS ZIA MH002782Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 100309/Z/12/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The multiple testing problem arises not only when there are many voxels or vertices in an image representation of the brain, but also when multiple contrasts of parameter estimates (that represent hypotheses) are tested in the same general linear model. We argue that a correction for this multiplicity must be performed to avoid excess of false positives. Various methods for correction have been proposed in the literature, but few have been applied to brain imaging. Here we discuss and compare different methods to make such correction in different scenarios, showing that one classical and well known method is invalid, and argue that permutation is the best option to perform such correction due to its exactness and flexibility to handle a variety of common imaging situations.

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Data Interpretation, StatisticalModels, StatisticalAdultBrainHumansNeuroimagingPsychological DistancePsychometricsBrain imagingContrast correctionMultiple comparisonsMultiple testingPermutation tests

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PMID32201328
PMCPMC8191638

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