| Number of Instances | Number of Attributes | Missing Values? | Associated Tasks: |
|---|
| 506 | 13 | No | Regression |
The Boston house-price data is derived from information collected by the U.S. Census Service concerning housing in the area of Boston, MA.
The dataset has following attributes:
| Predictor | Data Type | Target? |
|---|
| CRIM, per capita crime rate by town | Numerical | No |
| ZN, proportion of residential land zoned for lots over 25,000 sq.ft. | Numerical | No |
| INDUS, proportion of non-retail business acres per town. | Numerical | No |
| CHAS, Charles River dummy variable (1 if tract bounds river; 0 otherwise) | Nominal | No |
| NOX, nitric oxides concentration (parts per 10 million) | Numerical | No |
| RM, average number of rooms per dwelling | Numerical | No |
| AGE, proportion of owner-occupied units built prior to 1940 | Numerical | No |
| DIS, weighted distances to five Boston employment centres | Numerical | No |
| RAD, index of accessibility to radial highways | Ordinal | No |
| TAX, full-value property-tax rate per $10,000 | Numerical | No |
| PTRATIO, pupil-teacher ratio by town | Numerical | No |
| B, 1000(Bk - 0.63)^2 where Bk is the proportion of blacks by town | Numerical | No |
| LSTAT, % lower status of the population | Numerical | No |
| MEDV, Median value of owner-occupied homes in $1000's | Numerical | Yes |