3dTcorr1D


Usage: 3dTcorr1D [options] xset y1D

Computes the correlation coefficient between each voxel time series
in the input 3D+time dataset 'xset' and each column in the 1D time
series file 'y1D', and stores the output values in a new dataset.

OPTIONS:

-pearson  = Correlation is the normal Pearson (product moment)
              correlation coefficient [this is the default method].
-spearman = Correlation is the Spearman (rank) correlation
              coefficient.
-quadrant = Correlation is the quadrant correlation coefficient.
-ktaub    = Correlation is Kendall's tau_b coefficient.
            ++ For 'continuous' or finely-discretized data, tau_b and
               rank correlation are nearly equivalent (but not equal).
-dot      = Doesn't actually compute a correlation coefficient; just
              calculates the dot product between the y1D vector(s)
              and the dataset time series.

-Fisher   = Apply the 'Fisher' (inverse hyperbolic tangent = arctanh)
              transformation to the results.
            ++ It does NOT make sense to use this with '-ktaub', but if
               you want to do it, the program will not stop you.
            ++ Cannot be used with '-dot'!

-prefix p = Save output into dataset with prefix 'p'
             [default prefix is 'Tcorr1D'].

-mask mmm = Only process voxels from 'xset' that are nonzero
              in the 3D mask dataset 'mmm'.
            ++ Other voxels in the output will be set to zero.

-float    = Save results in float format [the default format].
-short    = Save results in scaled short format [to save disk space].
            ++ Cannot be used with '-dot'!

NOTES:

* The output dataset is functional bucket type, with one sub-brick
   per column of the input y1D file.

* No detrending, blurring, or other pre-processing options are available;
   if you want these things, see 3dDetrend or 3dTproject or 3dcalc.
   [In other words, this program presumes you know what you are doing!]

* Also see 3dTcorrelate to do voxel-by-voxel correlation of TWO
   3D+time datasets' time series, with similar options.

* You can extract the time series from a single voxel with given
   spatial indexes using 3dmaskave, and then run it with 3dTcorr1D:
    3dmaskave -quiet -ibox 40 30 20 epi_r1+orig > r1_40_30_20.1D
    3dTcorr1D -pearson -Fisher -prefix c_40_30_20 epi_r1+orig r1_40_30_20.1D

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearson_product-moment_correlation_coefficient
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spearman%27s_rank_correlation_coefficient
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kendall_tau_rank_correlation_coefficient

-- RWCox - Apr 2010
         - Jun 2010: Multiple y1D columns; OpenMP; -short; -mask.

* This binary version of 3dTcorr1D is compiled using OpenMP, a semi-
   automatic parallelizer software toolkit, which splits the work across
   multiple CPUs/cores on the same shared memory computer.
* OpenMP is NOT like MPI -- it does not work with CPUs connected only
   by a network (e.g., OpenMP doesn't work across cluster nodes).
* For some implementation and compilation details, please see
   https://afni.nimh.nih.gov/pub/dist/doc/misc/OpenMP.html
* The number of CPU threads used will default to the maximum number on
   your system. You can control this value by setting environment variable
   OMP_NUM_THREADS to some smaller value (including 1).
* Un-setting OMP_NUM_THREADS resets OpenMP back to its default state of
   using all CPUs available.
   ++ However, on some systems, it seems to be necessary to set variable
      OMP_NUM_THREADS explicitly, or you only get one CPU.
   ++ On other systems with many CPUS, you probably want to limit the CPU
      count, since using more than (say) 16 threads is probably useless.
* You must set OMP_NUM_THREADS in the shell BEFORE running the program,
   since OpenMP queries this variable BEFORE the program actually starts.
   ++ You can't usefully set this variable in your ~/.afnirc file or on the
      command line with the '-D' option.
* How many threads are useful? That varies with the program, and how well
   it was coded. You'll have to experiment on your own systems!
* The number of CPUs on this particular computer system is ...... 2.
* The maximum number of CPUs that will be used is now set to .... 2.

++ Compile date = Mar 24 2024 {AFNI_24.0.17:linux_ubuntu_16_64}