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t-tests, ANOVAs & Regression
and their application to the statistical analysis of neuroimaging
Carles Falcon &
Suz Prejawa
OVERVIEW
• Basics, populations and samples
• T-tests
• ANOVA
• Beware!
• Summary Part 1
• Part 2
Basics
• Hypotheses– H0 = Null-hypothesis
– H1 = experimental/
research hypothesis
• Descriptive vs inferential statistics
• (Gaussian) distributions
• p-value & alpha-level (probability and significance)
Activation in the left occipitotemporal regions , esp the visual word form area, is greatest
for written words.
Populations and samplesPopulation
z-tests and distributions
Sample(of a population)t-tests and distributions
NOTE: a sample can be 2 sets of scores, eg fMRI data from 2 conditions
Comparison between Samples
Are these groups different?
Comparison between Conditions (fMRI)
Reading aloud vs Picture naming
Reading aloud (script) vs “Reading” finger spelling (sign)
right hemisphereLeft hemisphere
lesion site
12
10
8
6
95%
CI
infercomp
t-tests
• Compare the mean between 2 samples/ conditions• if 2 samples are taken from the same population,
then they should have fairly similar means if 2 means are statistically different, then the samples are likely to be drawn from 2 different populations, ie they really are different
Exp. 1 Exp. 2
t-test in VWFA
• Exp. 1: activation patterns are similar, not significantly different they are similar tasks and recruit the VWFA in a similar way
• Exp. 2: activation patterns are very (and significantly) different reading aloud recruits the VWFA a lot more than naming
right hemisphereLeft hemisphere
lesion site
12
10
8
6
95%
CI
infercomp
right hemisphereLeft hemisphere
lesion site
12
10
8
6
95%
CI
infercomp
Exp. 1 Exp. 2
Formula
21
21
xxs
xxt
Reporting convention: t= 11.456, df= 9, p< 0.001
Difference between the means divided by the pooled standard error of the mean
Formula cont.
21
21
xxs
xxt
2
22
1
21
21 n
s
n
ss xx Cond. 1 Cond. 2
Types of t-tests
Independent Samples
Related Samples also called dependent means test
Interval measures/ parametric
Independent samples t-test*
Paired samples t-test**
Ordinal/ non-parametric
Mann-Whitney U-Test
Wilcoxon test
* 2 experimental conditions and different participants were assigned to each condition
** 2 experimental conditions and the same participants took part in both conditions of the experiments
Types of t-tests cont.
• 2-tailed tests vs one-tailed tests
• 2 sample t-tests vs 1 sample t-tests
2.5%2.5%
5%
Mean Mean
Mean
A known value
Comparison of more than 2 samples
Tell me the difference
between these groups…
Thank God I have ANOVA
ANOVA in VWFA (2x2)• Is activation in VWFA for
different for a) naming and reading and b) influenced by age and if so (a + b) how so?
• H1 & H0
• H2 & H0
• H3 & H0
reading causes significantly stronger activation in the VWFA but only in the older group so the VWFA is more strongly activated during reading but this seems to be affected by age (related to reading skill?)
right hemisphereLeft hemisphere
lesion site
12
10
8
6
95%
CI
infercomp
right hemisphereLeft hemisphere
lesion site
12
10
8
6
95%
CI
infercomp
Naming Reading
TASK
Naming Reading Aloud
AGE Young
Old
ANOVA
• ANalysis Of VAriance (ANOVA) – Still compares the differences in means between groups but it
uses the variance of data to “decide” if means are different
• Terminology (factors and levels)
• F- statistic– Magnitude of the difference between the different conditions– p-value associated with F is probability that differences between
groups could occur by chance if null-hypothesis is correct – need for post-hoc testing (ANOVA can tell you if there is an
effect but not where)
Reporting convention: F= 65.58, df= 4,45, p< .001
Types of ANOVAs
Type 2-way ANOVA for independent groups
repeated measures ANOVA mixed ANOVA
Participants Condition I
Condition II
Task I Participant group A
Participant group B
Task II
Participant group C
Participant group D
Condition I
Condition II
Task I Participant group A
Participant group A
Task II
Participant group A
Participant group A
Condition I
Condition II
Task I Participant group A
Participant group B
Task II
Participant group A
Participant group B
NOTE: You may have more than 2 levels in each condition/ task
Between-subject design
Within-subject design
both
BEWARE!• Errors
– Type I: false positives– Type II: false negatives
• Multiple comparison problem esp prominent in fMRI
SUMMARY
• t-tests compare means between 2 samples and identify if they are significantly/ statistically different
• may compare two samples to each other OR one sample to a predefined value
• ANOVAs compare more than two samples, over various conditions (2x2, 2x3 or more)
• They investigate variances to establish if means are significantly different
• Common statistical problems (errors, multiple comparison problem)
PART 2
Correlation- How much linear is the relationship of two variables? (descriptive)
Regression- How good is a linear model to explain my data? (inferential)
Correlation:- How much depend the value of one variable on the value of
the other one?
How to describe correlation (1):
Covariance
- The covariance is a statistic representing the degree to which 2 variables vary together
(note that Sx2 = cov(x,x) )
n
yyxxyx
i
n
ii ))((
),cov( 1
cov(x,y) = mean of products of each point desviation from mean values
Geometrical interpretation: mean of ‘signed’ areas from rectangles defined by points and the mean value lines
n
yyxxyx
i
n
ii ))((
),cov( 1
sign of covariance =
sign of correlation
How to describe correlation (2):
Pearson correlation coefficient (r)
- r is a kind of ‘normalised’ (dimensionless) covariance
- r takes values fom -1 (perfect negative correlation) to 1 (perfect positive correlation). r=0 means no correlation
yxxy ss
yxr
),cov( (S = st dev of sample)
Pearson correlation coefficient (r)
Problems:
- It is sensitive to outlayers
- r is an estimate from the sample, but does it represent the population parameter?
Linear regression:
- Regression: Prediction of one variable from knowledge of one or more other variables
- How good is a linear model (y=ax+b) to explain the relationship of two variables?
- If there is such a relationship, we can ‘predict’ the value y for a given x. But, which error could we be doing?
(25, 7.498)
Preliminars:
Lineal dependence between 2 variablesTwo variables are linearly dependent when the increase of one variable is
proportional to the increase of the other one
x
y
Samples: - Energy needed to boil water - Money needed to buy coffeepots
The equation y= mx+n that connects both variables has two parameters: -‘m’ is the unitary increase/decerease of y (how much increases or decreases y when x increases one unity)- ‘n’ the value of y when x is zero (usually zero)
Samples: ‘m’= Energy needed to boil one liter of water , ‘n’=0 ‘m’ = prize of one coffeepot, ‘n’= fixed tax/comission to add
n
m
10
12
12
xxyy
m
01)1( ny
m
Fiting data to a straight line (o viceversa): Here, ŷ = ax + b
– ŷ : predicted value of y– a: slope of regression line– b: intercept
Residual error (εi): Difference between obtained and predicted values of y (i.e. y i- ŷi)
Best fit line (values of b and a) is the one that minimises the sum of squared errors (SSerror) (yi- ŷi)2
ε i
εi = residual= yi , observed= ŷi, predicted
ŷ = ax + b
Adjusting the straight line to data:
• Minimise (yi- ŷi)2 , which is (yi-axi+b)2
• Minimum SSerror is at the bottom of the curve where the gradient is zero – and this can found with calculus
• Take partial derivatives of (yi-axi-b)2 respect parametres a and b and solve for 0 as simultaneous equations, giving:
• This calculus can allways be done, whatever is the data!!
x
y
s
rsa xayb
How good is the model?
• We can calculate the regression line for any data, but how well does it fit the data?
• Total variance = predicted variance + error variance: Sy2 = Sŷ
2 + Ser2
• Also, it can be shown that r2 is the proportion of the variance in y that is explained by our regression model
r2 = Sŷ2 / Sy
2 • Insert r2Sy
2 into Sy2 = Sŷ
2 + Ser2 and rearrange to get:
Ser2 = Sy
2 (1 – r2)
• From this we can see that the greater the correlation the smaller the error variance, so the better our prediction
Is the model significant?
• i.e. do we get a significantly better prediction of y from our regression equation than by just predicting the mean?
• F-statistic:
• And it follows that:
F(dfŷ,dfer) =sŷ2
ser2r2 (n - 2)2
1 – r2=......=
complicatedrearranging
t(n-2) =r (n - 2)
√1 – r2
So all we need to know are r and n !!!
Generalization to multiple variables
• Multiple regression is used to determine the effect of a number of independent variables, x1, x2, x3 etc., on a single dependent variable, y
• The different x variables are combined in a linear way and each has its own regression coefficient:
y = 0 + 1x1+ 2x2 +…..+ nxn + ε
• The a parameters reflect the independent contribution of each independent variable, x , to the value of the dependent variable, y
• i.e. the amount of variance in y that is accounted for by each x variable after all the other x variables have been accounted for
Geometric view, 2 variables:
ŷ = 0 + 1x1+ 2x2x1
x2
y
ε
‘Plane’ of regression: Plane nearest all the sample points distributed over a 3D space:
y = 0 + 1x1+2x2 + ε
Multiple regression in SPM:
y : voxel value
x1, x2,… : parameters that are supposed to justify y variation (regressors)
GLM: given a set of values yi, (voxel value at a determinated position for a sample of images) and a set of explanatories variables xi (group, factors, age, TIV, … for VBM or condition, movement parameters,…. for fMRI) find the (hiper)plane nearest all the points. The coeficients defining the plane are named1, 2,…, n
equation: y = 0 + 1x1+ 2x2 +…..+ nxn + ε
Matrix representation and results:
Last remarks:
- Correlated doesn’t mean related. e.g, any two variables increasing or decreasing over time would show a nice correlation: C02 air concentration in Antartica and lodging rental cost in London. Beware in longitudinal studies!!!
- Relationship between two variables doesn’t mean causality(e.g leaves on the forest floor and hours of sun)
- Cov(x,y)=0 doesn’t mean x,y being independents (yes for linear relationship but it could be quadratic,…)
Questions ?
Please don’t!
REFERENCES
• Field, A. (2005). Discovering Statistics Using SPSS (3rd ed). London: Sage Publications Ltd.
• Field, A. (2009). Discovering Statistics Using SPSS (2nd ed). London: Sage Publications Ltd.
• Various stats websites (google yourself happy)
• Old MfD slides, esp 2008