Pima Indians Diabetes source status and attribution notice

Pinned source: https://www.openml.org/api/v1/json/data/37
Dataset: OpenML 37, version 1, file 37
Retrieved: 2026-10-13
Declared OpenML licence value: Public
Aner metadata identifier: OpenML-Public (not an SPDX license identifier)

Original owners: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.
Original donor: Vincent Sigillito, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
Citation: Smith, Everhart, Dickson, Knowler and Johannes (1988), Using the ADAP
learning algorithm to forecast the onset of diabetes mellitus, Proceedings of
SCAMC, pages 261-265.

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records its declaration without assigning Creative Commons or BSD permissions.
Current mlbench documentation reports withdrawal of the original Pima data from
UCI and mlbench over informed consent concerns. The pinned OpenML copy is a
historical benchmark and does not imply a reversal of that withdrawal.
Evidence: https://github.com/cran/mlbench/blob/master/man/SynthDiabetes.Rd

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