Bizarre matrix in pmap and tmap of permutation Wilcoxon test done on the PLV values

we were looking to better understand the data obtained from a recently done wilcoxon test and the matrix came out to be 2080x1x6 in both the pmap and the tmap. We figure that the 6 is coming from different frequency bands but cannot work out why the first value is 2080 and not something else.

We're looking to find the functional connectivity changes between a before and after EEG recording. The time of the recording was split into 4 second chunks out of an 8 minute recording, after this a PLV was done on each 'not-rejected' time chunk, creating a set of matrices showing connectivity between electrodes in the time windows. An average was also found for the whole recording. using the PLV values of the time windowed data, a pair permutation Wilcoxon signed rank test was performed and another colour matrix was made.
This test was exported to matlab where the tmap and pmap matrices were inspected.
We do no understand why the matrix is 2080x1x6 and because of this, not sure entirely what is being stored in them.
could anybody help, it would be useful for analysis of the data.

Hi @alonso1989,

PLV is a symmetric connectivity metric, thus redundant elements are not saved to optimize storage space. Having 2080 elements, it seems PLV was computed with 64 channels, then 64*64 = 4096 elements (per frequency band). The saved 2080 elements are the upper triangle of the connectivity matrix (2016 elements) plus the diagonal (64 elements).

You can find more info in this post:

and:
https://neuroimage.usc.edu/brainstorm/Tutorials/Connectivity#On_the_hard_drive