Hi Zsolt, you can use mri_annotation2label to separate the annotation 
into labels, then mri_mergelabels to recombine several of them together, 
then run mris_anatomical_stats on the merged label.
doug

On 09/25/2012 08:34 AM, Zsolt Cselényi wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I would like to find out how to pool parcellation statistics (i.e. 
> ?.aparc.stats table entries) from several areas into a bigger one. For 
> example: how to get the pooled statistics for the area “parietal” 
> which would be made up of “superiorparietal” and “inferiorparietal” 
> cortical structures? Calculating pooled values for things like 
> GrayVol, SurfArea seem rather straightforward (by summing of course) 
> but not so for ThickAvg, ThickStd, MeanCurv, GausCurv, FoldInd and 
> CurvInd.
>
> First, should they be pooled using the area or the number of vertices?
>
> Second, how should they be pooled? For ThickAvg and MeanCurv I guess 
> it’s an area- (or NumVert- ?) weighted mean and for ThickStd maybe a 
> NumVert-weighted pooled SD but not sure whether it’s also a (weighted) 
> mean for GausCurv, FoldInd and CurvInd?
>
> Please help!
>
> Thank you,
>
> Zsolt
>
>
>
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