boston: Boston Housing Data

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Boston Housing Data

Description

A subset of data from the Housing data for 506 census tracts of Boston from the 1970 Census. Original data set can be found in the mlbench package.

Usage

data(boston)

Format

A data.frame with 506 rows and 13 columns:

cmedv

corrected median value of owner-occupied homes in USD 1000's

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

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 USD 10,000

ptratio

pupil-teacher ratio by town

chas

Charles River dummy variable (= 1 if tract bounds river; 0 otherwise)

lstat

percentage of lower status of the population

Source

mlbench package

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