The Boston housing dataset provides housing values in the suburbs of Boston.

boston_df

Format

A data frame with 506 rows and 14 variables:

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

Percentage of lower status of the population

medv

Median value of owner-occupied homes in $1000s