Boston Housing Dataset

Overview

The Boston Housing Dataset consists of data regarding the price of housing in Boston and a set of associated factors.

• 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 nitric 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 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
• B 1000(Bk - 0.63)^2 where Bk is the proportion of blacks by town
• LSTAT % lower status of the population
• MEDV Median value of owner-occupied homes in $1000's

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