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.. @author: Manuel Guenther <Manuel.Guenther@idiap.ch>
.. @date:   Tue Aug 26 09:42:18 CEST 2014

.. _bob.db.iris:

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 Iris Flower Data Set
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.. todolist::

The `Iris flower data set <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_flower_data_set>`_
or Fisher's Iris data set is a multivariate data set introduced by Sir Ronald
Aylmer Fisher (1936) as an example of discriminant analysis. The dataset
consists of 50 samples from three species of Iris flowers (Iris setosa, Iris
virginica and Iris versicolor). Four features were measured from each sample,
they are the length and the width of sepal and petal, in centimeters.

As this data set is quite small and used for testing purpose, it is directly
integrated into |project|, which provides both ways to access the data, as well
as the data itself (feature vectors of length four for various samples of the
three species).


Documentation
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.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   guide
   py_api

Indices and tables
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* :ref:`genindex`
* :ref:`modindex`
* :ref:`search`