DAAGxtras (version 0.6-9)

covtest: Sample of UCI Machine Learning Forest Cover Dataset

Description

Dataset used as test data in the study cited below. These are observations 11341 to 15120, out of 581012, in the dataset on the UCI site. Forest cover type is recorded, together with information on physical geographical variables that may account for the forest cover type.

Usage

data(covtest)

url

http://kdd.ics.uci.edu/databases/covertype/covertype.data.html

source

http://kdd.ics.uci.edu/databases/covertype/covertype.html

Details

For further details, see http://kdd.ics.uci.edu/databases/covertype/covertype.data.html. Note the omission of any information on geographical location. Distance through the data seems however to be, in part, a proxy for geographical location.

References

Blackard, Jock A. 1998. "Comparison of Neural Networks and Discriminant Analysis in Predicting Forest Cover Types." Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Forest Sciences. Colorado State University. Fort Collins, Colorado.

Examples

data(covtest)