Boston: Boston Data
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Boston

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Boston Data

Description

A data set containing housing values in 506 suburbs of Boston.

Usage

Boston

Format

A data frame with 506 rows and 13 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: nitrogen 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 mean of distances to five Boston employment centres.
rad: index of accessibility to radial highways.
tax: full-value property-tax rate per $10,000.
ptratio: pupil-teacher ratio by town.
lstat: lower status of the population (percent).
medv: median value of owner-occupied homes in $1000s.

Source

This dataset was obtained from, and is slightly modified from, the Boston dataset that is part of the MASS library. References are available in the MASS library.

References

James, G., Witten, D., Hastie, T., and Tibshirani, R. (2013) An Introduction to Statistical Learning with applications in R, https://www.statlearning.com, Springer-Verlag, New York