从物理测量预测鲍鱼的年龄。通过将壳体通过锥形切割，染色它来确定鲍鱼的年龄，并通过显微镜计算环的数量 - 钻孔和耗时的任务。其他测量，更容易获得，用于预测年龄。可能需要进一步的信息，例如天气模式和地点（因此食品可用性）来解决问题。从删除具有缺失值的原始数据示例（丢失预测值的大部分），并且连续值的范围已经缩放用于ANN（通过除以200）。

Attribute Information:

Given is the attribute name, attribute type, the measurement unit and a brief description.  The number of rings is the value to predict: either as a continuous value or as a classification problem.

Name / Data Type / Measurement Unit / Description
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Sex / nominal / -- / M, F, and I (infant)
Length / continuous / mm / Longest shell measurement
Diameter / continuous / mm / perpendicular to length
Height / continuous / mm / with meat in shell
Whole weight / continuous / grams / whole abalone
Shucked weight / continuous / grams / weight of meat
Viscera weight / continuous / grams / gut weight (after bleeding)
Shell weight / continuous / grams / after being dried
Rings / integer / -- / +1.5 gives the age in years

The readme file contains attribute statistics.

Relevant Papers:

Sam Waugh (1995) "Extending and benchmarking Cascade-Correlation", PhD thesis, Computer Science Department, University of Tasmania.
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David Clark, Zoltan Schreter, Anthony Adams "A Quantitative Comparison of Dystal and Backpropagation", submitted to the Australian Conference on Neural Networks (ACNN'96).