Boston {MASS}R Documentation

Housing Values in Suburbs of Boston

Description

The Boston data frame has 506 rows and 14 columns.

Arguments

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

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

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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