Sample Data Sets

Fish Data

The Fish data set contains measurements of 159 fish caught in Finland's Lake Laengelmavesi (Journal of Statistics Education Data Archive 2006).

The following list describes each variable.

species: species of fish
weight: weight of the fish, in grams
length1: length of the fish from the nose to the beginning of the tail, in centimeters
length2: length of the fish from the nose to the notch of the tail, in centimeters
length3: length of the fish from the nose to the end of the tail, in centimeters
height: maximum height of the fish, in centimeters
width: maximum width of the fish, in centimeters

In addition to these variables, the data set contains the following transformed variables.