Published February 23, 2023 | Version v1.1
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Metrics As Scores Dataset: The Iris Flower Data Set

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Linnaeus University

Description

The Iris flower data set or Fisher’s Iris data set is a multivariate data set used and made famous by the British statistician and biologist Ronald Fisher. The dataset was introduced in his 1936 paper "The Use of Multiple Measurements in Taxonomic Problems" (Fisher 1936) as an example of linear discriminant analysis.

This dataset has the following Features:

  • Petal.Length: Length of the petal
  • Petal.Width: Width of the petal
  • Sepal.Length: Length of the sepal
  • Sepal.Width: Width of the sepal

It has a total of 3 Groups: setosa, versicolor, and virginica.

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References

  • Hönel, Sebastian, Morgan Ericsson, Welf Löwe, and Anna Wingkvist. 2022. "Contextual Operationalization of Metrics as Scores: Is My Metric Value Good?" In 22nd IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security, QRS 2022, Guangzhou, China, December 5-9, 2022, 333–43. IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/QRS57517.2022.00042.
  • Fisher, R. A. 1936. "The Use of Multiple Measurements in Taxonomic Problems." Annals of Eugenics 7 (2): 179–88. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-1809.1936.tb02137.x.