boston {gausscov} | R Documentation

## Boston data

### Description

This data set is part of the MASS package. The 14 columns are:

crim per capita crime rate by town

zn proportion of residential land zoned for lots over 25.000 sq.ft.

indus proportion of non-residential business acres per town

chas Charles River dummy variable (=1 if tract bounds rive; 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

ptration pupil-teacher ration by town

black 100(Bk-0.63)^2 where Bk is the proportion of blacks by town

lstat lower status of the population (percent)

medv median value of owner occupies homes in $1000s.

### Usage

    boston

### Format

A 506 x 14 matrix.

### Source

R package MASS https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/available_packages_by_name.html

### References

MASS Support Functions and Datasets for Venables and Ripley's MASS

[Package gausscov version 0.0.2 Index]