Boston: Boston
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Boston

Boston

A data frame with 506 rows and 14 columns:

crim: numeric: per capita crime rate by town
zn: numeric: proportion of residential land zoned for lots over 25,000 sq.ft
indus: numeric: proportion of non-retail business acres per town
chas: factor: Charles River dummy variable (= 1 if tract bounds river; 0 otherwise)
nox: numeric: nitric oxides concentration (parts per 10 million)
rm: numeric: average number of rooms per dwelling
age: numeric: proportion of owner-occupied units built prior to 1940
dis: numeric: weighted distances to five Boston employment centres
rad: integer: index of accessibility to radial highways
tax: integer: full-value property-tax rate per USD 10,000
ptratio: numeric: pupil-teacher ratio by town
black: numeric: 1000(B - 0.63)^2 where B is the proportion of blacks by town
lstat: numeric: percentage of lower status of the population
medv: numeric: median value of owner-occupied homes in USD 1000's