The Boston housing data set was collected by Harrison and Rubinfeld (1978). They comprise 506 observations for each census district of the Boston metropolitan area. The data set was analyzed in Belsley et al. (1980).
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per capita crime rate, |
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proportion of residential land zoned for large lots, |
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proportion of nonretail business acres, |
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Charles River (1 if tract bounds river, 0 otherwise), |
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nitric oxides concentration, |
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average number of rooms per dwelling, |
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proportion of owner-occupied units built prior to 1940, |
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weighted distances to five Boston employment centers, |
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index of accessibility to radial highways, |
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full-value property tax rate per $10,000, |
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pupil/teacher ratio , |
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% lower status of the population, |
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median value of owner-occupied homes in $1000. |