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    Area of Science:

    • Neuroimaging
    • Biostatistics
    • Longitudinal Data Analysis

    Background:

    • Neuroimaging research often prioritizes hypothesis testing over effect size estimation, raising concerns about replicability.
    • Current confidence set methods for neuroimaging effect sizes are limited to cross-sectional, univariate analyses.
    • Existing techniques cannot capture complex longitudinal associations between brain measures and individual variations.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To generalize confidence set approaches for arbitrary effect sizes in longitudinal neuroimaging studies.
    • To develop a robust method for estimating effect sizes in repeated neuroimaging measurements.
    • To enable the analysis of multigroup and nonlinear longitudinal associations.

    Main Methods:

    • Developed a generalized confidence set method for longitudinal neuroimaging data.
    • Employed generalized estimating equations for robust estimation of effect size images and covariance functions.
    • Utilized a nonparametric bootstrap to determine the joint distribution of effect sizes for confidence set construction.

    Main Results:

    • The proposed method provides efficient effect size estimates and constructs confidence sets identifying significant brain regions.
    • Simulations demonstrated accurate coverage and reasonable confidence interval widths.
    • Applied the method to analyze longitudinal changes in Alzheimer's disease and psychosis.

    Conclusions:

    • The generalized confidence set approach offers a robust tool for analyzing repeated neuroimaging measurements.
    • This method addresses limitations of existing techniques for longitudinal and complex neuroimaging data.
    • Integrated visualization functions in the pbj R package facilitate robust analysis.