Appendix B: Sashelp Data Sets

The Sashelp.Iris data set (Fisher 1936) is widely used for examples of discriminant analysis and cluster analysis. The data are measurements in millimeters of the sepal length, sepal width, petal length, and petal width of 50 iris specimens from each of three species: Iris setosa, I. versicolor, and I. virginica. The following steps display information about the Sashelp.Iris data set and create Figure 55:

title 'Fisher (1936) Iris Data';
proc contents data=sashelp.Iris varnum;
   ods select position;
run;

title 'The First Five Observations Out of 150';
proc print data=sashelp.Iris(obs=5);
run;

title 'The Iris Species Variable';
proc freq data=sashelp.Iris;
   tables species;
run;