"Standard regression tasks for evaluation"

Ben

Hi,

can some of you point me to standard data sets for evaluating a regression method.
For classification there are some datasets which are always used in literature when classification tasks are evaluated (model building as well as feature selection), e.g. diabetes, breast-cancer, ionosphere, sonar, ...
I now want to evaluate a FS selection method which should be suitable for classification and regression tasks, but I'm quite unfamiliar with the latter.
Please, name some "standard" datasets and where to get them.

Thanks a lot,
Ben

wessel

Solar spot dataset:
http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/greenwch.shtml

Old and faithful geyser dataset:
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/cmbishop/prml/webdatasets/faithful.txt

edit:
Synthetic data that is often used:
http://tracer.lcc.uma.es/problems/ackley/ackley.html