Type

This function returns type of compartment. Each compartment of the neuron is of a particular type; soma = 1, axon =2, dendrites =3, apical dendrites=4. The type values are assigned directly from the given input neuron.
Function Output Type : Numeric
Calculated : At Each Tracing Point
Output:
Metric | Total_Sum | #Compartments (considered) |
#Compartments (discarded) |
Minimum | Average | Maximum | S.D. |
TYPE | 5826 | 1554 | (0) | 1 | 3.4 | 4 | .6854 |
Output Interpretation :
This example above returns the Total_Sum of the compartments that has type, minimum, maximum and average values according to the standard output of Lmeasure.
Total_Sum, Minimum, Average, Maximum are of not much relevance because Type is to be observed for each compartment.
References :

This metric helps in ‘specificity’ to limit the analysis of a function to one or more specific type of compartments of the tree.