BH: Price of 506 Boston houses.

In mgoulet847/tagi: Tractable Approximate Gaussian Inference in Neural Networks

Description

This dataset was originally from the StatLib archive. It contains the price and other attributes of 506 Boston houses.

Usage

BH

Format

A data frame with 506 rows and 14 variables:

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

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

B

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

LSTAT

% lower status of the population

MEDV

median value of owner-occupied homes in $1000's

Details

The dataset from the TAGI repository was used for comparison purposes, but the original dataset was published by Harrison, D. and Rubinfeld, D.L.

Source

https://github.com/CivML-PolyMtl/TAGI/blob/master/BostonHousing/data/BostonHousing.mat

References

http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/datasets/boston

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

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