FisherIris: Fisher's Iris Data

Description Format Details Source

Description

Measurements of three iris species

Format

A dataset with 150 observations on the following 5 variables.

Type Species of iris, Setosa, Virginica, or Versicolor
PetalLength Petal length in mm.
PetalWidth Petal width in mm.
SepalLength Sepal length in mm.
SepalWidth Sepal width in mm.

Details

Data used in Fisher's 1936 paper, this famous dataset looks at measurements for samples of three different species of iris. The petal is part of the flower itself and the sepals are green leaves, directly under the petals, providing support.

Source

R. A. Fisher (1936). "The use of multiple measurements in taxonomic problems". Annals of Eugenics 7 (2): 179–188. doi:10.1111/j.1469-1809.1936.tb02137.x.


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