Boston: Boston Housing Data (Regression)

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Boston Housing Data (Regression)

Description

housing values in suburbs of Boston.

• 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)

• 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

• rad: index of accessibility to radial highways

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

• ptratio: pupil-teacher ratio by town

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

• lstat: percentage of lower status of the population

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

Usage

data(Boston)

Format

Regression Dataset.

Source

This dataset was obtained from the MASS library.

References

Creator: Harrison, D. and Rubinfeld, D.L. Hedonic prices and the demand for clean air, J. Environ. Economics & Management, vol.5, 81-102, 1978.

Examples

data(Boston)
head(Boston)

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