Boston: Boston housing data

BostonR Documentation

Boston housing data

Description

A dataset containing information collected by the U.S Census Service concerning housing in the area of Boston, originally published by Harrison and Rubinfeld (1978).

Usage

Boston

Format

A data frame with 506 rows and 14 variables:

  • CRIM - per capita crime rate by town

  • ZN - proportion of residential land zoned for lots over 25,000 sq.ft.

  • INDUS - proportion of non-retail business acres per town.

  • CHAS - Charles River dummy variable (1 if tract bounds river; 0 otherwise)

  • NOX - nitric oxides concentration (parts per 10 million)

  • RM - average number of rooms per dwelling

  • AGE - proportion of owner-occupied units built prior to 1940

  • DIS - weighted distances to five Boston employment centres

  • TAX - full-value property-tax rate per $10,000

  • RAD - index of accessibility to radial highways

  • PTRATIO - pupil-teacher ratio by town

  • B - 1000(Bk - 0.63)^2 where Bk is the proportion of blacks by town

  • LSTAT - percentage lower status of the population

  • MEDV - Median value of owner-occupied homes in $1000's

Source

http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/datasets/boston

References

Harrison, D and Rubinfeld, DL (1978) ‘Hedonic prices and the demand for clean air’, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 5, 81-102.


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