Boston

housing values in suburbs of Boston

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Extends the simple k-nearest neighbors algorithm by incorporating numerous kernel functions and a variety of distance metrics. The package takes advantage of 'RcppArmadillo' to speed up the calculation of distances between observations.

Lampros Mouselimis

KernelKnn

Kernel k Nearest Neighbors

Matthew Parks

Boston function

A data frame with 506 Instances and 14 attributes (including the class attribute, "medv")<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)</dd> <dt><code>nox</code></dt>
<dd>nitric 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 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>black</code></dt>
<dd>1000(Bk - 0.63)^2 where Bk is the proportion of blacks by town</dd> <dt><code>lstat</code></dt>
<dd>percentage of lower status of the population</dd> <dt><code>medv</code></dt>
<dd>Median value of owner-occupied homes in $1000's</dd> 
</dl>

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Boston Housing Data    (Regression) — Boston

A data frame with 506 Instances and 14 attributes (including the class attribute, "medv")<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)</dd>

 <dt><code>nox</code></dt>
<dd>nitric 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 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>black</code></dt>
<dd>1000(Bk - 0.63)^2 where Bk is the proportion of blacks by town</dd>

 <dt><code>lstat</code></dt>
<dd>percentage of lower status of the population</dd>

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

 
</dl>

Boston: Boston Housing Data (Regression)

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