# Error message running covariate significiance testing module

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/error-message-running-covariate-significiance-testing-module/27921>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [February 20, 2023, 8:50am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/error-message-running-covariate-significiance-testing-module/27921 "2023-02-20T08:50:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![r0320](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e47c2d/32.png) [@r0320](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/r0320)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2023, 8:50am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/error-message-running-covariate-significiance-testing-module/27921/1 "2023-02-20T08:50:04Z")

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After running the covariate significiance testing module on slicer 4.0.1, I obtain the differents outocomes but I also have this error message :

MFSDA\_run standard error:  
C:\Program Files\SlicerSALT 4.0.1\lib\SlicerSALT-5.1\qt-scripted-modules\MFSDA\_run.py:60: DeprecationWarning: ‘U’ mode is deprecated  
fh = open(args.shapeData, ‘rU’)

Could you please help me to solve this ?

Thank you for your help.

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**Author:** ![Hoai-Nam\_Bui](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/hoai-nam_bui/32/15877_2.png) [@Hoai-Nam\_Bui](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/Hoai-Nam_Bui)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2023, 8:14pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/error-message-running-covariate-significiance-testing-module/27921/2 "2023-05-07T20:14:26Z")

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Hello!

I am getting this exact same error. Have you figured out how to fix this?