This function returns the Hillman taper
Hillman taper: given a branch it computes ratio between the final diameter and the initial one.



The segment taper is calculated as Dc/ Da

Metric Total_Sum #Compartments
(considered)
#Compartments
(discarded)
Minimum Average Maximum S.D
Taper_2 10.7164 85 (1017) -0.333 0.126 0.8636 0.2235

The above example returns the total sum of the Taper_2 of each compartment, minimum, average and maximum values according to standard output of Lmeasure.