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Housing data for census tracts of Boston from the 1970 census
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The data are 506 observations on 14 variables, cmedv
being the target variable:
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 USD 10,000
ptratio
pupil-teacher ratio by town
b
1000(B - 0.63)^2 where B is the proportion of blacks by town
lstat
percentage of lower status of the population
cmedv
corrected median value of owner-occupied homes in USD 1000's
This data set is modified from BostonHousing2
in the mlbench
package, which is the corrected version with additional spatial information from the original data contributed by Harrison and Rubinfeld (1979).
In the dataframe BostonHousing1
, we have removed town
(name of town), tract
(census tract)
lon
(longitude of census tract), lat
(latitude of census tract), and the
medv
(median value with errors).
Harrison, D. and Rubinfeld, D. L. (1978). Hedonic prices and the demand for clean air. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 5: 81-102.
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