Classic data sets

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Several classic data sets have been used extensively in the statistical literature.

• Fisher's iris data - A classic data set presented in Fisher (1936). Provided on-line at the Virtual Laboratories in Probability and Statistics site.
• Categorical data analysis - Data sets used in the book, An Introduction to Categorical Data Analysis, by Agresti are provided on-line by StatLib.
• Robust statistics - Data sets used in Robust Regression and Outlier Detection (Rousseeuw and Leroy, 1986). Provided on-line at the University of Cologne.
• Time series - Data used in Chatfield's book, The Analysis of Time Series, are provided on-line by StatLib.
• Extreme values - Data used in the book, An Introduction to the Statistical Modeling of Extreme Values are provided on-line by Stuart Coles, the book's author.
• Bayesian Data Analysis - Data used in the book, Bayesian Data Analysis, are provided on-line by Andrew Gelman, one of the book's authors.

• The Bupa liver data, used in several papers in the machine learning (data mining) literature.