Improving standards in brain-behavior correlation analyses

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue MAY 2012, 2012, Pages

  Rousselet, Guillaume A ^a   Pernet, Cyril R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Confidence intervals; Multiple comparisons; Multivariate statistics; Outliers; Pearson correlation; Robust statistics; Skipped correlation; Spearman correlation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EFFECT SIZE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MASKING; NEUROIMAGING;

EID: 84864262904     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00119     Document Type: Article

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