ktch.datasets.load_outline_mosquito_wings

ktch.datasets.load_outline_mosquito_wings(*, as_frame=False)

Load and return the mosquito wing outline dataset used in [Rohlf_and_Archie_1984], however includes only 126 of 127 specimens because of missing in the original NTS file.

The original NTS file of this data is available at SB Morphometrics.

Specimens	126
Landmarks per specimen	100
Landmark dimensionality	2
Features	real

Parameters:

as_framebool, default=False

If True, the data is a pandas DataFrame including columns with appropriate dtypes (numeric). The target is a pandas DataFrame or Series depending on the number of target columns. If return_X_y is True, then (data, target) will be pandas DataFrames or Series as described below.

Returns:

dataBunch

Dictionary-like object, with the following attributes. coords : {ndarray, dataframe} of shape (150, 4)

The data matrix. If as_frame=True, data will be a pandas DataFrame.

meta : {dataframe, list} of shape () DESCR: str

The full description of the dataset.

filename: str

The path to the location of the data.

References

[Rohlf_and_Archie_1984]

Rohlf, F.J., Archie, J.W., 1984. A Comparison of Fourier Methods for the Description of Wing Shape in Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae). Syst Zool 33, 302. https://doi.org/10.2307/2413076