adult {liver}

adult data set

Description

The adult dataset was collected from the US Census Bureau and the primary task is to predict whether a given adult makes more than $50K a year based attributes such as education, hours of work per week, etc. The target feature is income, a factor with levels "<=50K" and ">50K", and the remaining 14 variables are predictors.

Usage

 data( adult ) 

Format

The adult dataset, as a data frame, contains 48598 rows and 15 columns (variables/features). The 15 variables are:

• age: age in years.

• workclass: a factor with 6 levels.

• demogweight: the demographics to describe a person.

• education: a factor with 16 levels.

• education.num: number of years of education.

• marital.status: a factor with 5 levels.

• occupation: a factor with 15 levels.

• relationship: a factor with 6 levels.

• race: a factor with 5 levels.

• gender: a factor with levels "Female","Male".

• capital.gain: capital gains.

• capital.loss: capital losses.

• hours.per.week: number of hours of work per week.

• native.country: a factor with 42 levels.

• income: yearly income as a factor with levels "<=50K" and ">50K".

Details

This dataset can be downloaded from the UCI machine learning repository:

http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~delve/data/adult/desc.html

A detailed description of the dataset can be found in the UCI documentation at:

http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~delve/data/adult/adultDetail.html

References

Kohavi, R. (1996). Scaling up the accuracy of naive-bayes classifiers: A decision-tree hybrid. Kdd.

See Also

risk, churn, churnTel, bank, advertising, marketing, insurance, cereal, housePrice, house

Examples

data( adult )

str( adult )