R/boston.R

In sdcastillo/ExamPAData: Data Sets for Predictive Analytics Exam

#' Boston
#'
#' @description Boston housing data set
#'
#' @docType data
#'
#' @usage boston
#'
#' @format data.frame, 506 observations of 14 variables:
#' \describe{
#'   \item{crim}{per capita crime rate by town.}
#'   \item{zn}{proportion of residential land zoned for lots over 25,000 sq.ft.}
#'   \item{indus}{proportion of non-retail business acres per town.}
#'   \item{chas}{Charles River dummy variable (= 1 if tract bounds river; 0
#'         otherwise).}
#'   \item{nox}{nitrogen oxides concentration (parts per 10 million).}
#'   \item{rm}{average number of rooms per dwelling.}
#'   \item{age}{proportion of owner-occupied units built prior to 1940.}
#'   \item{dis}{weighted mean of distances to five Boston employment centers.}
#'   \item{rad}{index of accessibility to radial highways.}
#'   \item{tax}{full-value property-tax rate per $10,000.}
#'   \item{ptratio}{pupil-teacher ratio by town.}
#'   \item{black}{1000(Bk - 0.63)^2 where Bk is the proportion of blacks by
#'         town.}
#'   \item{lstat}{lower status of the population (percent).}
#'   \item{medv}{median value of owner-occupied homes in $1000s.}
#' }
#'
#' @keywords datasets
#'
#'
#'
"boston"