boston: Housing Values in Suburbs of Boston

In rebordao/modellatoR: Automatic deployment of a statistical model; from data to reporting.

Description

This dataset is intended to be used in the modellatoR demos for regression.

Usage

boston

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: 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: median value of owner-occupied homes in $1000s.

Author(s)

This dataset is part of the MASS package and has copyright 1994-9 W. N. Venables and B. D. Ripley.

Source

• 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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