Referecnes
The PaSTA and PaSTA-NS implemented here is described in:
Liu et al. PaSTA: Fast parametric inference of significance for spatial associations between brain maps (in prep).
The idea of spatial detrending is described in:
Liu et al. Spatial trends in brain maps: Evidence and recommendations (in prep).
Dutilleul’s derivation for effective sample size (PaSTA and PaSTA-NS):
Dutilleul P, Clifford P, Richardson S, Hémon D. Modifying the t test for assessing the correlation between two spatial processes. Biometrics. 1993;49:305-314.
Nonstationary covariance function based on process convolution (PaSTA-NS):
Paciorek CJ, Schervish MJ. Spatial modelling using a new class of nonstationary covariance functions. Environmetrics. 2006;17(5):483-506.