This function returns the Burke Taper
Burke Taper: actual diameter minus previous diameter, divided by the length
of the branch. (Da -
Db)
/L
| Metric | Total_Sum | #Compartments (considered) |
#Compartments (discarded) |
Minimum | Average | Maximum | S.D |
| Taper_1 | -1.4721 | 89 | (1465) | -0.0636 | -0.01654 | 0.003 | 0.072459 |
The above example returns the total sum of the Taper_1 of each compartment, minimum, average and maximum values according to standard output of Lmeasure.