1. Title: Iris Plants Database 2. Sources: (a) Creator: R.A. Fisher (b) Donor: Michael Marshall (MARSHALL%PLU@io.arc.nasa.gov) (c) Date: July, 1988 3. Past Usage: - Publications: too many to mention!!! Here are a few. 1. Fisher,R.A. "The use of multiple measurements in taxonomic problems" Annual Eugenics, 7, Part II, 179-188 (1936); also in "Contributions to Mathematical Statistics" (John Wiley, NY, 1950). 2. Duda,R.O., & Hart,P.E. (1973) Pattern Classification and Scene Analysis. (Q327.D83) John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-22361-1. See page 218. 3. Dasarathy, B.V. (1980) "Nosing Around the Neighborhood: A New System Structure and Classification Rule for Recognition in Partially Exposed Environments". IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. PAMI-2, No. 1, 67-71. -- Results: -- very low misclassification rates (0% for the setosa class) 4. Gates, G.W. (1972) "The Reduced Nearest Neighbor Rule". IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, May 1972, 431-433. -- Results: -- very low misclassification rates again 5. See also: 1988 MLC Proceedings, 54-64. Cheeseman et al's AUTOCLASS II conceptual clustering system finds 3 classes in the data. 4. Relevant Information: --- This is perhaps the best known database to be found in the pattern recognition literature. Fisher's paper is a classic in the field and is referenced frequently to this day. (See Duda & Hart, for example.) The data set contains 3 classes of 50 instances each, where each class refers to a type of iris plant. One class is linearly separable from the other 2; the latter are NOT linearly separable from each other. --- Predicted attribute: class of iris plant. --- This is an exceedingly simple domain. 5. Number of Instances: 150 (50 in each of three classes) 6. Number of Attributes: 4 numeric, predictive attributes and the class 7. Attribute Information: 1. sepal length in cm 2. sepal width in cm 3. petal length in cm 4. petal width in cm 5. class: -- Iris Setosa (class 1) -- Iris Versicolour (class 2) -- Iris Virginica (class 3) 8. Missing Attribute Values: None Summary Statistics: Min Max Mean SD Class Correlation sepal length: 4.3 7.9 5.84 0.83 0.7826 sepal width: 2.0 4.4 3.05 0.43 -0.4194 petal length: 1.0 6.9 3.76 1.76 0.9490 (high!) petal width: 0.1 2.5 1.20 0.76 0.9565 (high!) 9. Class Distribution: 33.3% for each of 3 classes.