Subset of data from a study on sea snails of the genus Haliotis. The age of a such a snail (in years) is quite close to the number of rings it has on its shell plus 1.5. The idea is to predict the age of an individual sea snail from other characteristics. The rest of the data is witheld for evalution purposes.
Format
A data frame with 2923 observations on the following 9 variables.
- Type
male, femal or infant
- LongSh
length of longest shell
- Diam
diameter
- Height
height
- WhWt
weight when whole
- ShuckWt
weight when shucked
- ViscWt
weight of the snail's viscera
- ShellWt
weight of the snails's shell
- Age
number of rings, plus 1.5
Source
Dataset derived from the UCI Machine Learning Repository. See http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Abalone for more information, including a citation of the original research article.