boston
OpenML dataset with id 531
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Full work available at URL: https://api.openml.org/data/v1/download/52643/boston.arff
Upload date: 29 September 2014
Dataset Characteristics
Number of classes: 0
Number of features: 14 (numeric: 12, symbolic: 2 and in total binary: 1 )
Number of instances: 506
Number of instances with missing values: 0
Number of missing values: 0
Author: Source: Unknown - Date unknown Please cite:
The Boston house-price data of Harrison, D. and Rubinfeld, D.L. 'Hedonic prices and the demand for clean air', J. Environ. Economics & Management, vol.5, 81-102, 1978. Used in Belsley, Kuh & Welsch, 'Regression diagnostics ...', Wiley, 1980. N.B. Various transformations are used in the table on pages 244-261 of the latter. Variables in order: 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 nitric 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 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 B 1000(Bk - 0.63)^2 where Bk is the proportion of blacks by town LSTAT % lower status of the population MEDV Median value of owner-occupied homes in $1000's
Information about the dataset
CLASSTYPE: numeric
CLASSINDEX: last
