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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Respir Physiol Neurobiol. 2014 Dec 12;207:28–39. doi: 10.1016/j.resp.2014.11.016
Column Assignments used in SigmaPlot Program
Columns 1–4, Rows 1-N (# of neurons in
data set)
Each neuron’s # corresponds to the row# it
is located in
Neuron information: date, neuron
channel#, location & etc.
Columns 5,18, & 28 Low # rows used for intermediate
calculations
Columns 6–13, rows 1–49 Contains sorted neuron#s assigned to
each of the 7 clusters and col#13 is for
neurons that don’t fit well with any of the
clusters
Columns 6–13, rows 50–55 Cluster summary results for each of the 7
clusters: mean (vector distance of neurons
in the cluster), SD, minimum, maximum,
mean+2SDs, and number of neurons in
cluster.
Columns 16 and 17 (N rows) Minimum vector distance of neuron vector
to one of the centroids determines the
cluster# it is assigned to (col. 17)
Col 18, Row 1 Overall average minimum error of each
iteration
Columns 20–26, 10 rows Initial cluster vectors (n=7), or after 1st
iteration, 7 vector centroids used for
distance calculations
Column 27, rows 1–10 Plotting index 1–10
Column 29, rows 1–7 Number of neurons in each cluster
Columns 30–36, rows 1–10 Updated centroids following iteration
Columns 37 & 38 Intermediate calculations for determining
weighting factors
Columns 40-(40+135=175), rows 1–10
N=135 neurons in this study
Neuron contour vectors.
Columns 180 −330 After final iteration, for each cluster,
assigned neuron vectors are placed in
adjacent columns to facilitate plotting. An
empty column separates each cluster
data.