tecator
OpenML dataset with id 505
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Upload date: 29 September 2014
Dataset Characteristics
Number of classes: 0
Number of features: 125 (numeric: 125, symbolic: 0 and in total binary: 0 )
Number of instances: 240
Number of instances with missing values: 0
Number of missing values: 0
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This is the Tecator data set: The task is to predict the fat content of a meat sample on the basis of its near infrared absorbance spectrum. 1. Statement of permission from Tecator (the original data source)
These data are recorded on a Tecator Infratec Food and Feed Analyzer working in the wavelength range 850 - 1050 nm by the Near Infrared Transmission (NIT) principle. Each sample contains finely chopped pure meat with different moisture, fat and protein contents.
If results from these data are used in a publication we want you to mention the instrument and company name (Tecator) in the publication. In addition, please send a preprint of your article to
Karin Thente, Tecator AB, Box 70, S-263 21 Hoganas, Sweden
The data are available in the public domain with no responsability from the original data source. The data can be redistributed as long as this permission note is attached. For more information about the instrument - call Perstorp Analytical's representative in your area.
2. Description of the data file
For each meat sample the data consists of a 100 channel spectrum of absorbances and the contents of moisture (water), fat and protein. The absorbance is -log10 of the transmittance measured by the spectrometer. The three contents, measured in percent, are determined by analytic chemistry.
There are 240 samples which are divided into 5 data sets for the purpose of model validation and extrapolation studies. The data sets, further described in reference 1, are:
Data set Use Samples C Traning 129 M Monitoring 43 T Testing 43 E1 Extrapolation, Fat 8 E2 Extrapolation, Protein 17
The data for all 240 samples appear at the end of this file - 25 lines per sample. The data sets appear in the order of the table above. The spectra are preprocessed using a principal component analysis on the data set C, and the first 22 principal components (scaled to unit variance) are included for each sample. Thus if you want to use the data for a standard (interpolation) test of your algorithm, use sample 1-172 for training and sample 173-215 for testing (and ignore the last 25 samples), and use the first 13 or so principal components to predict the fat content.
Each line contains the 100 absorbances followed by the 22 principal components and finally the contents of moisture, fat and protein.
Preceeding the data lines, the following lines appear:
real_in=122 real_out=3 training_examples=172 test_examples=43 extrapolation_examples=25
3. More details on how to use the data
The data are made available as a benchmark for regression models. In order to compare models, it is practical to use the data set as follows:
C and M combined are used to tune (estimate, train) the model. (Some approaches set aside some training data to control overfitting. These data should be a subset of C+M. In (1) the subset M was used for this purpose.)
T is used to test the model once it has been tuned. If each model has an element of randomness (as is the case for neural networks) the most reliable measure of performance of a single model is obtained by selecting a handful of models on the basis of C+M and quoting the average of the performances on T. In the presence of randomness it is bad practice to train a lot of models on C+M and then select the best of these on the basis of T.
C, M and T are drawn from the same pool of data, so T is used to test the ability of the models to interpolate. The data sets E1 and E2 contain more fat and protein respectively and are intended to be used to test the ability of the models to extrapolate.
4. Performance of neural network models
The performance is measured as Standard Error of Prediction (SEP) which is the root mean square of the difference between the true and the predicted content.
For the prediction of fat on the data set T the following results were obtained
Reference SEP method (see the papers for details) (1) 0.65 10-6-1 network, early stopping (2) 0.52 10-3-1 network, Bayesian (3) 0.36 13-X-1 network, Bayesian, Automatic Relevance Determination
A linear model with 10 inputs yields SEP=2.78.
5. References
(1) C.Borggaard and H.H.Thodberg, "Optimal Minimal Neural Interpretation of Spectra", Analytical Chemistry 64 (1992), p 545-551. (2) H.H.Thodberg, "Ace of Bayes: Application of Neural Networks with Pruning" Manuscript 1132, Danish Meat Research Institute (1993), available by anonymous ftp in the file: pub/neuroprose/thodberg.ace-of-bayes.ps.Z on the Internet node archive.cis.ohio-state.edu (128.146.8.52).
(3) Revised and extended version of (2), in preparation, to be submitted to IEEE Trans. Neural Networks (1995) available by anonymous ftp in the file: pub/neuroprose/thodberg.bayesARD.ps.Z on the Internet node archive.cis.ohio-state.edu (128.146.8.52).
Hans Henrik Thodberg Email: thodberg@nn.dmri.dk Danish Meat Research Institute Phone: (+45) 42 36 12 00 Maglegaardsvej 2, Postboks 57 Fax: (+45) 42 36 48 36 DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark
real_in=122 real_out=3 training_examples=172 test_examples=43 extrapolation_examples=25
Note: all 240 samples are included in the same order as mentioned above
Information about the dataset
CLASSTYPE: numeric
CLASSINDEX: none specific
