Boston housing (regression practice data)

The Boston housing dataset (Harrison & Rubinfeld, 1978): predict median house value (MEDV) from neighbourhood characteristics. Included as standard supervised-learning practice data. Note that this dataset has known ethical concerns (the B column encodes a racial statistic) and is provided for teaching purposes only.

housing

Format

A data frame with 506 rows and 14 columns.

Examples

data(housing)
head(housing)
#>      CRIM ZN INDUS CHAS   NOX    RM  AGE    DIS RAD TAX PTRATIO      B LSTAT
#> 1 0.00632 18  2.31    0 0.538 6.575 65.2 4.0900   1 296    15.3 396.90  4.98
#> 2 0.02731  0  7.07    0 0.469 6.421 78.9 4.9671   2 242    17.8 396.90  9.14
#> 3 0.02729  0  7.07    0 0.469 7.185 61.1 4.9671   2 242    17.8 392.83  4.03
#> 4 0.03237  0  2.18    0 0.458 6.998 45.8 6.0622   3 222    18.7 394.63  2.94
#> 5 0.06905  0  2.18    0 0.458 7.147 54.2 6.0622   3 222    18.7 396.90  5.33
#> 6 0.02985  0  2.18    0 0.458 6.430 58.7 6.0622   3 222    18.7 394.12  5.21
#>   MEDV
#> 1 24.0
#> 2 21.6
#> 3 34.7
#> 4 33.4
#> 5 36.2
#> 6 28.7