The Species Problem in Iris

By E. Anderson. 1936

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openTSNE: a modular Python library for t-SNE dimensionality reduction and embedding (2019, methodology): “We here outline the most straightforward usage of openTSNE on the Iris data set from Anderson (1936).”
Variable Selection for Model-Based Clustering (2006, background): “…puts I. versicolor and I. virginica together, and these are known to be very closely related; their identiﬁcation as separate species is based in part on information not included in this dataset (Anderson 1936 Thevariable selection procedure selects three variables (all but sepal length).”
Hybridization and the species problem in conservation (2015, background): “…to classify these problematic cases is known as the “species problem”, and it has vexed taxonomists throughout history (e.g., Darwin, 1859; Poulton, 1903; Anderson, 1936; Gould, 1992; Rojas, 1992; Mallet, 1995; de Queiroz, 1998; Hey, 2001; Hudson and Coyne, 2002; Ereshefsky, 2009; Hausdorf, 2011).”
MVN: An R Package for Assessing Multivariate Normality (2014, methodology): “Then, the mean and the variance are log-normalized and the p-value is estimated (Henze and Zirkler, 1990; Johnson and Wichern, 1992; Henze and Wagner, 1997; Mecklin and Mundfrom, 2003; Alpar, 2013).”