BostonHousing1: Housing data for census tracts of Boston from the 1970 census

In xgsu/WOCR: Weighted Orthogonal Components Regression (WOCR) Analysis

Description

Housing data for census tracts of Boston from the 1970 census

Usage

BostonHousing1

Format

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

Source

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).

References

• Harrison, D. and Rubinfeld, D. L. (1978). Hedonic prices and the demand for clean air. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 5: 81-102.

Examples

 data(BostonHousing1)
 summary(BostonHousing1)

xgsu/WOCR documentation built on May 4, 2019, 1:06 p.m.