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Boston House Price Data (Original)
Description
Original data, which come from a study by Harrison Jr and Rubinfeld (1978), examining
the association between median house prices in a particular community with
various community characteristics. See bostonhouseprice2
for the corrected version, with additional variables.
Usage
bostonhouseprice
Format
A data frame with 506 rows and 9 variables:
- crime
crimes committed per capita
- rooms
average number of rooms per house
- radial
index of accessibility to radial highways
- stratio
average student-teacher ratio of schools in the community
- lowstat
percentage of the population that are "lower status"
- lnox
log(annual average nitrogen oxide concentration (pphm))
- lproptax
log(property tax per $1000)
- ldist
log(weighted distances to five employment centres in the Boston region)
- lprice
log(median house price ($))
Source
https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=wooldridge
References
Harrison Jr, D. and Rubinfeld, D. L. (1978). Hedonic housing prices and the demand for clean air. Journal of environmental economics and management, 5(1):81-102.
Wooldridge, J. M. (2015). Introductory econometrics: A modern approach. Cengage learning.