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## Functional derivatives maps

A derivative map is a measure derived from a functional series, mapped onto spatial
locations as defined by voxels in a volume or vertices on a surface.

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A time series is a chronologically ordered series of numeric values.
Time series will generally be stored as tables, with a row of column headers
indicating the name of the series.
In the case where every voxel has a time series, then the data should be stored
in a 4D NIfTI file.
In the case where the time series varies spatially, the data SHOULD be stored in
an appropriate file, such as a 4D NIfTI file, a `.time.gii` GIFTI file,
or a `.dtseries.nii` CIFTI-2 file.

All time series files MUST be accompanied by a data dictionary in JSON format,
consistent with the format described in
[Common principles](../02-common-principles.md#tabular-files), which describes
metadata for each column name.
In the case of NIfTI time series files, the notion of column name does not
In the case of spatial time series files, the notion of column name does not
apply, so column-level metadata may be applied to the entire file.
In addition, the following fields apply to the entire file in all cases:

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The `"TR"` sampling frequency serves to indicate that no resampling is needed
to use the series as a regressor for BOLD data, including BOLD series with
non-uniform sampling, such as clustered sparse acquisition.
`StartTime` is assumed to be 0 and therefore not mandatory.
`StartTime` is assumed to be 0 and therefore OPTIONAL.
Additionally, because time series TSV files have column headers, the `Columns`
field is omitted.

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