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 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 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 percentage of lower status of the population
[,14] medv median value of owner-occupied homes in USD 1000's

Source

Harrison, D. and Rubinfeld, D.L. (1978). Hedonic prices and the demand for clean air. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 5, 81–102.

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

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


[Package mlbench version 1.0-2 Index]