Multivariate classification of neuroimaging data with nested subclasses: Biased accuracy and implications for hypothesis testing

• Hamidreza Jamalabadi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany, IMPRS for Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Department of Psychiatry, Division for Translational Psychiatry, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2485-2374

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• Sarah Alizadeh,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany, IMPRS for Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Department of Psychiatry, Division for Translational Psychiatry, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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• Monika Schönauer,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany, Department of Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germany

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• Christian Leibold,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany, Department of Biology II, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4859-8000

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• Steffen Gais

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: steffen.gais@uni-tuebingen.de

  Affiliations Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany, Department of Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germany

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