boston: Boston housing

Description Usage Format Source

Description

A dataset that contains entries that shows median housing values for Boston.

Usage

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Format

A data frame with 506 rows and 14 columns:

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

black

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

lstat

lower status of the population (percent)

medv

target variable, median value of owner-occupied homes in \$1000s

Source

library(MASS)

Harrison, D. and Rubinfeld, D.L. (1978) Hedonic prices and the demand for clean air. J. Environ. Economics and Management 5, 81 - 102

Belsley D.A., Kuh, E. and Welsch, R.E. (1980) Regression Diagnostics. Identifying Influential Data and Sources of Collinearity. New York: Wiley.


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