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Boston housing data
Description
A dataset containing information collected by the U.S Census Service concerning housing in the area of Boston, originally published by Harrison and Rubinfeld (1978).
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 - 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
TAX - full-value property-tax rate per $10,000
RAD - index of accessibility to radial highways
PTRATIO - pupil-teacher ratio by town
B - 1000(Bk - 0.63)^2 where Bk is the proportion of blacks by town
LSTAT - percentage lower status of the population
MEDV - Median value of owner-occupied homes in $1000's
Source
http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/datasets/boston
References
Harrison, D and Rubinfeld, DL (1978) ‘Hedonic prices and the demand for clean air’, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 5, 81-102.