K-Means Clustering of Abalone Populations Using an Incomplete Dataset

Abstract

This report investigates the distribution of abalone data collected off of the coast of Tasmania, Australia in 1994. Analysis of this data is used to determine whether or not the dataset includes groups which are unusual and possibly indicative of the abalone population collapse that has occurred in Tasmania since the data was collected. As a side effect, some of the abalone population distribution data that was reportedly collected in (Nash, 1994) but neither published in (Nash, 1994) nor in the UCI data repository (Nash, 1995) has been reconstituted and made available in the appendix.