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Housing Values in Suburbs of Boston
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Description
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The ``Boston`` data frame has 506 rows and 14 columns.

Usage
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    Boston

Format
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This data frame contains the following columns:

``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``
    nitrogen 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 mean of 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.

``black``
    *1000(Bk - 0.63)^2*

    where *Bk* is the proportion of blacks by town.

``lstat``
    lower status of the population (percent).

``medv``
    median value of owner-occupied homes in \\$1000s.

Source
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Harrison, D. and Rubinfeld, D.L. (1978) Hedonic prices and the demand
for clean air. *J. Environ. Economics and Management* **5**, 81â€“102.

Belsley D.A., Kuh, E. and Welsch, R.E. (1980) *Regression Diagnostics.
Identifying Influential Data and Sources of Collinearity.* New York:
Wiley.
