1. Title: Small Soybean Database

2. Sources:
     (a) Michalski,R.S. Learning by being told and learning from
         examples: an experimental comparison of the two methodes of knowledge
         acquisition in the context of developing an expert system for soybean
         desease diagnoiss", International Journal of Policy Analysis and
         Information Systems, 1980, 4(2), 125-161.
     (b) Donor: Doug Fisher (dfisher%vuse@uunet.uucp)
     (c) Date: 1987

3. Past Usage:
     See the soybean-large.names

4. Relevant Information Paragraph:
     A small subset of the original soybean database.  See the reference
     for Fisher and Schlimmer in soybean-large.names for more information.
     
5. Number of Instances: 47

6. Number of Attributes: 35 (all have been nominalized)
     -- All attributes here appear with numeric values
 
7. Attribute Information: 
     -- derivable from soybean-large.names

8. Number of Missing Attribute Values: 0

9. Class Distribution: 
   1. D1: 10
   2. D2: 10
   3. D3: 10
   4. D4: 17