Note that this reference documentation is identical to the help that is displayed in MATLAB when you type “help ft_statfun_diff_itc”.

  FT_STATFUN_DIFF_ITC computes the difference in the inter-trial coherence between
  two conditions. The input data for this test should consist of complex-values
  spectral estimates, e.g. computed using FT_FREQANALYSIS with method=mtmfft, wavelet
  or mtmconvcol.
 
  The ITC is a measure of phase consistency over trials. By randomlly shuffling the
  trials  between the two consitions and repeatedly computing the ITC difference, you
  can test the significance of the two conditions having a different ITC.
 
  A difference in the number of trials poer condition will affect the ITC, however
  since the number of trials remains the same for each random permutation, this bias
  is reflected in the randomization distribution.
 
  Use this function by calling the high-level statistic functions as
    [stat] = ft_freqstatistics(cfg, freq1, freq2, ...)
  with the following configuration options
    cfg.method    = 'montecarlo'
    cfg.statistic = 'diff_itc'
  and optionally the options
   cfg.complex    = 'diffabs' to compute the difference of the absolute ITC values (default), or
                    'absdiff' to compute the absolute value of the difference in the complex ITC values.
  
  For this specific statistic there is no known parametric distribution, hence the
  probability and critical value cannot be computed. This specific statistic can
  therefore only be used with cfg.method='montecarlo'. If you want to do this in
  combination with cfg.correctm='cluster', you also need either
  cfg.clusterthreshold='nonparametric_common' or 'nonparametric_individual'.
 
  See FT_FREQSTATISTICS and FT_STATISTICS_MONTECARLO for more details