EWHP: House price data set (DataFrame) in England and Wales

Description

A house price data set for England and Wales from 2001 with 9 hedonic (explanatory) variables.

Usage

data(EWHP)

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 519 observations on the following 12 variables.

Easting: a numeric vector, X coordinate
Northing: a numeric vector, Y coordinate
PurPrice: a numeric vector, the purchase price of the property
BldIntWr: a numeric vector, 1 if the property was built during the world war, 0 otherwise
BldPostW: a numeric vector, 1 if the property was built after the world war, 0 otherwise
Bld60s: a numeric vector, 1 if the property was built between 1960 and 1969, 0 otherwise
Bld70s: a numeric vector, 1 if the property was built between 1970 and 1979, 0 otherwise
Bld80s: a numeric vector, 1 if the property was built between 1980 and 1989, 0 otherwise
TypDetch: a numeric vector, 1 if the property is detached (i.e. it is a stand-alone house), 0 otherwise
TypSemiD: a numeric vector, 1 if the property is semi detached, 0 otherwise
TypFlat: a numeric vector, if the property is a flat (or 'apartment' in the USA), 0 otherwise
FlrArea: a numeric vector, floor area of the property in square metres

Author

Binbin Lu binbinlu@whu.edu.cn

References

Fotheringham, A.S., Brunsdon, C., and Charlton, M.E. (2002), Geographically Weighted Regression: The Analysis of Spatially Varying Relationships, Chichester: Wiley.

Examples

Run this code

###
data(EWHP)
head(ewhp)
houses.spdf <- SpatialPointsDataFrame(ewhp[, 1:2], ewhp)
 ####Get the border of England and Wales
data(EWOutline)
plot(ewoutline)
plot(houses.spdf, add = TRUE, pch = 16)

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