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

- 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.

[Package mlbench version 1.0-2 Index]