Inappropriate usage of the Brunner-Munzel test in recent voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping studies

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 341-343

  Medina, Jared ^a   Kimberg, Daniel Y ^a   Chatterjee, Anjan ^a   Coslett, H Branch ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain lesion mapping; Lesion; Structure function; Voxel; Voxel based lesion symptom mapping (VLSM)

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRUNNER MUNZEL TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 71549154692     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.09.016     Document Type: Article

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