SydneyRealEstate: Sydney real estate

Description Usage Format References Examples

Description

The SydneyRealEstate data frame has data on several variables concerning houses sold in Sydney, Australia, during 2001.

Usage

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Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

logSalePrice

natural logarithm of sale price in Australian dollars.

lotSize

lot size in square meters but with some imputation.

longitude

degrees longitude of location of house.

latitude

degrees latitude of location of house.

saleDate

sale date in dd/mm/yyy format.

saleQtr

financial quarter in which sale took place.

infRate

inflation rate measure as a percentage.

postCode

four-digit post code of the suburb in which the house located.

crimeDensity

crime density measure for the suburb in which the house is located.

crimeRate

crime rate measure for the suburb in which the house is located.

income

average weekly income of the suburb in which the house is located.

distToBusStop

distance from house to the nearest bus stop (kilometers).

distToCoastline

distance from house to the nearest coastline location (kilometers).

distToNatPark

distance from house to the nearest national park (kilometers).

distToPark

distance from house to the nearest park (kilometers).

distToRailLine

distance from house to the nearest railway line (kilometers).

distToRailStation

distance from house to the nearest railway station (kilometers).

distToHighway

distance from house to the nearest highway (kilometers).

distToFreeway

distance from house to the nearest freeway (kilometers).

distToTunnel

distance from house to the Sydney Harbour Tunnel (kilometers).

distToMainRoad

distance from house to the nearest main road (kilometers).

distToSealedRoad

distance from house to the nearest sealed road (kilometers).

distToUnsealedRoad

distance from house to the nearest sealed road (kilometers).

airNoise

aircraft noise exposure measure.

foreignerRatio

proportion of foreigners in the suburb in which the house is located.

distToGPO

distance from the house to the General Post Office in Sydney's central business district (kilometers).

NO

nitrous oxide level recorded at the air pollution monitoring station nearest to the house.

NO2

nitrogen dioxide level recorded at the air pollution monitoring station nearest to the house.

ozone

ozone level recorded at the air pollution monitoring station nearest to the house.

neph

nephelometer suspended matter measurement recorded at the air pollution monitoring station nearest to the house.

PM10

particulate matter with a diameter of under 10 micrometers leve recorded at the air pollution monitoring station nearest to the house.

SO2

sulphur dioxide level recorded at the air pollution monitoring station nearest to the house.

distToAmbulance

distance from house to the nearest ambulance station (kilometers).

distToFactory

distance from house to the nearest factory (kilometers).

distToFerry

distance from house to the nearest ferry wharf (kilometers).

distToHospital

distance from house to the nearest hospital (kilometers).

distToMedical

distance from house to the nearest medical services (kilometers).

distToSchool

distance from house to the nearest school (kilometers).

distToUniversity

distance from house to the nearest university (kilometers).

References

Chernih, A. and Sherris, M. (2004). Geoadditive hedonic pricing models. Unpublished manuscript. University of New South Wales, Australia.

Examples

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library(HRW) ; data(SydneyRealEstate)
## Not run: 
for (colNum in setdiff((2:39),c(5,8)))
{
   plot(jitter(SydneyRealEstate[,colNum]),SydneyRealEstate$logSalePrice,pch = ".",
        xlab = names(SydneyRealEstate)[colNum],ylab = "log(sale price)",col = "blue")
   readline("Hit Enter to continue.\n")
}

## End(Not run)

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