Boston {ISLR2}

Boston Data

Description

A data set containing housing values in 506 suburbs of Boston.

Usage

Boston

Format

A data frame with 506 rows and 13 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.

lstat

lower status of the population (percent).

medv

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

Source

This dataset was obtained from, and is slightly modified from, the Boston dataset that is part of the MASS library. References are available in the MASS library.

References

James, G., Witten, D., Hastie, T., and Tibshirani, R. (2013) An Introduction to Statistical Learning with applications in R, https://www.statlearning.com, Springer-Verlag, New York

Examples

lm(medv ~ crim + rm, data=Boston)