These data are used in the book "Computational Statistics" by G.H. Givens and J.A. Hoeting. Name: manifold.dat Chapter: 10 Discussed in: Problem 10.5 Description: 5000 points (one per row) drawn from a four-dimensional mixture distribution, with a low weighting of a density that lies nearly on a 3-dimensional manifold and a high weighting of a heavy-tailed density that fills 4-dimensional space. Variable labels: x1, x2, x3, x4