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Boston Housing Data
Description
A subset of data from the Housing data for 506 census tracts of Boston from the 1970 Census. Original data set can be found in the mlbench package.
Usage
data(boston)
Format
A data.frame with 506 rows and 13 columns:
- cmedv
corrected median value of owner-occupied homes in USD 1000's
- 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
- 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
- chas
Charles River dummy variable (= 1 if tract bounds river; 0 otherwise)
- lstat
percentage of lower status of the population
Source
mlbench package