NewBoston—This is the first five rows of the original Boston Housing data set. This can be used as new data, and the Boston data set as the original. The numeric function will return predictions on the new data.
New_Boston.RdThis is the first five rows of the Boston housing data set, which have been removed from the Boston data set included here. It is otherwise identical to the Boston data set.
- crim
Crime rate by town. Original data in 1970 FBI data
- zn
Proportion of a town's residential land zoned for lots greater than 25,000 square feet
- indus
Proportional non-retail business per town
- chas
Captures the amenities of a riverside location and thus should be positive
- nox
Nitrogen oxygen concentrations in part per hundred million
- rm
Average number of rooms in owner units
- age
Proportion of owner units built prior to 1940
- dis
Weighted distances to five employment centers in the Boston region
- rad
Index of accessibility to radial highways
- tax
Full property value tax rate ($/$10,000)
- ptratio
Pupil-teacher ratio by town school district
- black
Black proportion of population
- lstat
Proportion of population that is lower status (proportion of adults without some high school education and proportion of male workers classified as laborers)
- medv
Median value of owner occupied homes, from the 1970 United States census