BostonHousing2: BostonHousing2

Description Usage Format

Description

Provided by the mlbench package: Machine Learning Benchmark data sets.

Usage

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Format

A data frame with 506 rows and 19 columns:

town

factor: name of town

tract

integer: census tract

lon

numeric: longitude of census tract

lat

numeric: latitude of census tract

medv

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

cmedv

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

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

b

numeric: 1000(B - 0.63)^2 where B is the proportion of blacks by town

lstat

numeric: percentage of lower status of the population


BillVenables/WWRData documentation built on Jan. 26, 2021, 10:18 p.m.