cluster.datasets (version 1.0-1)

all.mammals.milk.1956: Hartigan (1975) Mammal's Milk

Description

The table contains a list of animals and the constituents of their milk. A shorter version appearsa in jh.table.1.2. This is Table 16.3 in Chapter 16 of Hartigan (1975) on page 304.

Usage

data(all.mammals.milk.1956)

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 25 observations on the following 6 variables.
name
a character vector for the animal name
water
a numeric vector for the percentage of water
protein
a numeric vector for the percentage of protein
fat
a numeric vector for the percentage of fat
lactose
a numeric vector for the percentage of lactose
ash
a numeric vector for the percentage of ash.

Source

Spector, W. S. (1956) Handbook of Biological Data, Saunders. SPAETH2 Cluster Analysis Datasets http://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/datasets/spaeth2/spaeth2.html

Details

Hartigan suggests the use of a joiner-scaler algorithm on this data set.

References

Hartigan, J. A. (1975). Clustering Algorithms, John Wiley, New York.

Examples

Run this code
data(all.mammals.milk.1956)

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