When using mlbench in publications, please cite both the mlbench package and, if applicable, the 1998 UCI Machine Learning Repository itself:

Leisch F, Dimitriadou E (2024). mlbench: Machine Learning Benchmark Problems. R package version 2.1-6, https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=mlbench.

To cite the 1998 UCI Machine Learning Repository, please use:

Blake CL, Merz CJ (1998). UCI Repository of Machine Learning Databases. University of California, Irvine, Department of Information and Computer Sciences, Irvine, CA. Formerly available from http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mlearn/MLRepository.html.

Corresponding BibTeX entries:

  @Manual{,
    title = {mlbench: Machine Learning Benchmark Problems},
    author = {Friedrich Leisch and Evgenia Dimitriadou},
    year = {2024},
    note = {R package version 2.1-6},
    url = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=mlbench},
  }

  @Manual{,
    title = {UCI Repository of Machine Learning Databases},
    author = {Catherine L. Blake and Christopher J. Merz},
    year = {1998},
    organization = {University of California, Irvine, Department of
      Information and Computer Sciences},
    address = {Irvine, CA},
    note = {Formerly available from
      \url{http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mlearn/MLRepository.html}},
  }