mlbench (version 0.4-1)

BostonHousing: 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: cll{ [,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 10 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 $10,000 [,11] ptratio pupil-teacher ratio by town [,12] b 1000(Bk - 0.63)^2 where Bk is the proportion of blacks by town [,13] lstat lower status of the population [,14] medv median value of owner-occupied homes in $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.ics.uci.edu://pub/machine-learning-databases
• http://www.ics.uci.edu/mlearn/MLRepository.html

and were converted to R format by [e-mail].