Improving standards in brain-behaviour correlation analyses
Associations between two variables, for instance between brain and behavioural measurements, are often studied using Pearson correlation. However, Pearson correlation is not robust: outliers can introduce false correlations or mask existing ones. These problems are exacerbated in brain imaging by a...
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Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2012-05-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Human Neuroscience |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2012.00119/full |