Description
This data set considers 6 binary attributes for 20 animals.
Usage
data(animals)
Format
A data frame with 20 observations on 6 variables:
[ , 1] war warm-blooded
[ , 2] fly can fly
[ , 3] ver vertebrate
[ , 4] end endangered
[ , 5] gro live in groups
[ , 6] hai have hair
All variables are encoded as 1 = ‘no’, 2 = ‘yes’.
Details
This dataset is useful for illustrating monothetic (only a single variable is used for each split) hierarchical
clustering.