BostonHousing {mlbench} | R Documentation

## Boston Housing Data

### Description

Concerns housing values in suburbs of Boston.

### Usage

    data(BostonHousing)

### Format

A data frame with 506 observations on 14 variables, the last one `medv` being the target variable:

[,1] | crim | per capita crime rate by town
[,2] | zn | proportion of residential land zoned for lots over 25,000 sq.ft
[,3] | indus | proportion of non-retail business acres per town
[,4] | chas | Charles River dummy variable (= 1 if tract bounds river; 0 otherwise)
[,5] | nox | nitric oxides concentration (parts per 110 million)
[,6] | rm | average number of rooms per dwelling
[,7] | age | proportion of owner-occupied units built prior to 1940
[,8] | dis | weighted distances to five Boston employment centres
[,9] | rad | index of accessibility to radial highways
[,10] | tax | full-value property-tax rate per USD 10,000
[,11] | ptratio | pupil-teacher ratio by town
[,12] | b | 1000(B - 0.63)^2 where B is the proportion of blacks by town
[,13] | lstat | lower status of the population
[,14] | medv | median value of owner-occupied homes in USD 1000's

### Source

Harrison, D. and Rubinfeld, D.L. 'Hedonic prices and the demand for clean air', J. Environ. Economics & Management, vol.5, 81-102, 1978.

These data have been taken from the UCI Repository Of Machine Learning Databases at

- ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/machine-learning-databases
- http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mlearn/MLRepository.html

and were converted to R format by Friedrich.Leisch@ci.tuwien.ac.at.

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