Boston

A data set containing housing values in 506 suburbs of Boston.

datasets

We provide the collection of data-sets used in the book 'An Introduction to Statistical Learning with Applications in R, Second Edition'. These include many data-sets that we used in the first edition (some with minor changes), and some new datasets.

Trevor Hastie

ISLR2

Introduction to Statistical Learning, Second Edition

Gareth James

Daniela Witten

Rob Tibshirani

Balasubramanian Narasimhan

Boston function

A data frame with 506 rows and 13 variables.<dl>
 <dt><code>crim</code></dt>
<dd>per capita crime rate by town.</dd>
 
 <dt><code>zn</code></dt>
<dd>proportion of residential land zoned for lots over 25,000 sq.ft.</dd> <dt><code>indus</code></dt>
<dd>proportion of non-retail business acres per town.</dd><dt><code>chas</code></dt>
<dd>Charles River dummy variable (= 1 if tract bounds river; 0 otherwise).</dd><dt><code>nox</code></dt>
<dd>nitrogen oxides concentration (parts per 10 million).</dd><dt><code>rm</code></dt>
<dd>average number of rooms per dwelling.</dd><dt><code>age</code></dt>
<dd>proportion of owner-occupied units built prior to 1940.</dd><dt><code>dis</code></dt>
<dd>weighted mean of distances to five Boston employment centres.</dd><dt><code>rad</code></dt>
<dd>index of accessibility to radial highways.</dd><dt><code>tax</code></dt>
<dd>full-value property-tax rate per $10,000.</dd><dt><code>ptratio</code></dt>
<dd>pupil-teacher ratio by town.</dd><dt><code>lstat</code></dt>
<dd>lower status of the population (percent).</dd><dt><code>medv</code></dt>
<dd>median value of owner-occupied homes in $1000s.</dd> 
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Boston Data — Boston

A data frame with 506 rows and 13 variables.<dl>
 <dt><code>crim</code></dt>
<dd>per capita crime rate by town.</dd>
 
 <dt><code>zn</code></dt>
<dd>proportion of residential land zoned for lots over 25,000 sq.ft.</dd>

 <dt><code>indus</code></dt>
<dd>proportion of non-retail business acres per town.</dd>

<dt><code>chas</code></dt>
<dd>Charles River dummy variable (= 1 if tract bounds river; 0 otherwise).</dd>

<dt><code>nox</code></dt>
<dd>nitrogen oxides concentration (parts per 10 million).</dd>

<dt><code>rm</code></dt>
<dd>average number of rooms per dwelling.</dd>

<dt><code>age</code></dt>
<dd>proportion of owner-occupied units built prior to 1940.</dd>

<dt><code>dis</code></dt>
<dd>weighted mean of distances to five Boston employment centres.</dd>

<dt><code>rad</code></dt>
<dd>index of accessibility to radial highways.</dd>

<dt><code>tax</code></dt>
<dd>full-value property-tax rate per $10,000.</dd>

<dt><code>ptratio</code></dt>
<dd>pupil-teacher ratio by town.</dd>

<dt><code>lstat</code></dt>
<dd>lower status of the population (percent).</dd>

<dt><code>medv</code></dt>
<dd>median value of owner-occupied homes in $1000s.</dd>

 
</dl>

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