Corrected data, which come from a study by Harrison Jr and Rubinfeld (1978), examining
the association between median house prices in a particular community with
various community characteristics. See bostonhouseprice for the
original version.
Format
A data frame with 506 rows and 13 variables:
- 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
- rm
average number of rooms per dwelling
- age
proportion of owner-occupied units built prior to 1940
- rad
index of accessibility to radial highways
- ptratio
pupil-teacher ratio by town
- lnox
log(nitric oxides concentration (parts per 10 million))
- ldis
log(weighted distances to five Boston employment centres)
- ltax
log(full-value property-tax rate per USD 10,000)
- llstat
log(percentage of lower status of the population)
- chast
Charles River dummy variable (=1 if tract bounds river; 0 otherwise)
- lcmedv
log(corrected median value of owner-occupied homes in USD 1000's)