Creator:

Richard Forsyth

Donor:

Richard S. Forsyth
8 Grosvenor Avenue
Mapperley Park
Nottingham NG3 5DX
0602-621676

Data Set Information:

A simple database containing 17 Boolean-valued attributes.  The "type" attribute appears to be the class attribute.  Here is a breakdown of which animals are in which type: (I find it unusual that there are 2 instances of "frog" and one of "girl"!)

Class# -- Set of animals:
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1 -- (41) aardvark, antelope, bear, boar, buffalo, calf, cavy, cheetah, deer, dolphin, elephant, fruitbat, giraffe, girl, goat, gorilla, hamster, hare, leopard, lion, lynx, mink, mole, mongoose, opossum, oryx, platypus, polecat, pony, porpoise, puma, pussycat, raccoon, reindeer, seal, sealion, squirrel, vampire, vole, wallaby,wolf
2 -- (20) chicken, crow, dove, duck, flamingo, gull, hawk, kiwi, lark, ostrich, parakeet, penguin, pheasant, rhea, skimmer, skua, sparrow, swan, vulture, wren
3 -- (5)  pitviper, seasnake, slowworm, tortoise, tuatara
4 -- (13) bass, carp, catfish, chub, dogfish, haddock, herring, pike, piranha, seahorse, sole, stingray, tuna
5 -- (4)  frog, frog, newt, toad
6 -- (8)  flea, gnat, honeybee, housefly, ladybird, moth, termite, wasp
7 -- (10) clam, crab, crayfish, lobster, octopus, scorpion, seawasp, slug, starfish, worm

Attribute Information:

  1. animal name:      Unique for each instance
  2. hair: Boolean
  3. feathers: Boolean
  4. eggs: Boolean
  5. milk: Boolean
  6. airborne: Boolean
  7. aquatic: Boolean
  8. predator: Boolean
  9. toothed: Boolean
 10. backbone: Boolean
 11. breathes: Boolean
 12. venomous: Boolean
 13. fins: Boolean
 14. legs: Numeric (set of values: {0,2,4,5,6,8})
 15. tail: Boolean
 16. domestic: Boolean
 17. catsize: Boolean
 18. type: Numeric (integer values in range [1,7])

Relevant Papers:

Forsyth's PC/BEAGLE User's Guide.

Papers That Cite This Data Set¹:

Mikko Koivisto and Kismat Sood. Exact Bayesian Structure Discovery in Bayesian Networks. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 5. 2004.  [View Context].

Eibe Frank and Stefan Kramer. Ensembles of nested dichotomies for multi-class problems. ICML. 2004.  [View Context].

Yuan Jiang and Zhi-Hua Z