all.mammals.milk.1956 {cluster.datasets}

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)

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.

Details

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

Source

Spector, W. S. (1956) Handbook of Biological Data, Saunders.

SPAETH2 Cluster Analysis Datasets http://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/datasets/spaeth2/spaeth2.html

References

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

Examples

data(all.mammals.milk.1956)