The fishing industry uses numerous measurements to describe a specific fish. Our goal is to predict the weight of a fish based on a number of these measurements and determine if any of these measurements are insignificant in determining the weigh of a product. See below for the description of these measurments.
The data consists of the following variables:
- Weight: weight of fish in g (numerical)
- Species: species name of fish (categorical)
- Body.Height: height of body of fish in cm (numerical)
- Total.Length: length of fish from mouth to tail in cm (numerical)
- Diagonal.Length: length of diagonal of main body of fish in cm (numerical)
- Height: height of head of fish in cm (numerical)
- Width: width of head of fish in cm (numerical)