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Edgar Anderson's Iris Data

Source: R/datasets.R
iris.Rd

Measurements in centimeters of the sepal length and width and petal length and width, respectively, for three species of iris flowers.

Format

A data frame with 150 rows and 5 columns

Source

Fisher, R. A. (1936) The use of multiple measurements in taxonomic problems. Annals of Eugenics, 7, Part II, 179-188.

The data were collected by Anderson, Edgar (1935). The irises of the Gaspe Peninsula, Bulletin of the American Iris Society, 59, 2-5.