Boston {MASS} | R Documentation |
Housing Values in Suburbs of Boston
Description
The Boston
data frame has 506 rows and 14 columns.
Usage
Boston
Format
This data frame contains the following columns:
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
black
- 1000(Bk - 0.63)^2 where Bk is the proportion of blacks by town
lstat
- lower status of the population (percent)
medv
- median value of owner-occupied homes in $1000
Source
Harrison, D. and Rubinfeld, D.L. (1978)
Hedonic prices and the demand for clean air.
J. Environ. Economics and Management
5, 81–102.
Belsley D.A., Kuh, E. and Welsch, R.E. (1980)
Regression Diagnostics. Identifying Influential Data and Sources of Collinearity.
New York: Wiley.
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