| 1. Title: BUPA liver disorders
| 
| 2. Source information:
|    -- Creators: BUPA Medical Research Ltd.
|    -- Donor: Richard S. Forsyth
|              8 Grosvenor Avenue
|              Mapperley Park
|              Nottingham NG3 5DX
|              0602-621676
|    -- Date: 5/15/1990
| 
| 3. Past usage: 
|    -- None known other than what is shown in the PC/BEAGLE User's Guide
|       (written by Richard S. Forsyth).
| 
| 4. Relevant information:
|    -- The first 5 variables are all blood tests which are thought
|       to be sensitive to liver disorders that might arise from
|       excessive alcohol consumption.  Each line in the bupa.data file
|       constitutes the record of a single male individual.
|    -- It appears that drinks>5 is some sort of a selector on this database.
|       See the PC/BEAGLE User's Guide for more information.
| 
| 5. Number of instances: 345
| 
| 6. Number of attributes: 7 overall
| 
| 7. Attribute information:
|    1. mcv	mean corpuscular volume
|    2. alkphos	alkaline phosphotase
|    3. sgpt	alamine aminotransferase
|    4. sgot 	aspartate aminotransferase
|    5. gammagt	gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase
|    6. drinks	number of half-pint equivalents of alcoholic beverages
|                 drunk per day
|    7. selector  field used to split data into two sets
| 
| 8. Missing values: none
| 

1, 2.

mean-corpuscular-vol: continuous.
alkaline-phosphotase: continuous.
alamine-aminotransferase: continuous.
aspartate-aminotransferase: continuous.
gamma-glutamyl-transpeptidase: continuous.
num-half-pint-equivalents: continuous.