boston

Function boston 

Source
pub fn boston() -> Result<DataFrame, PolarsError>
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§Housing Values in Suburbs of Boston

§Description:

The ‘Boston’ data frame has 506 rows and 14 columns.

§Usage:

Boston

§Format:

This data frame contains the following columns:

  • ‘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’ 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.
  • ‘ptratio’ pupil-teacher ratio by town.
  • ‘black’ 1000(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-occupied homes in $1000s.

§Source:

Harrison, D. and Rubinfeld, D.L. (1978) Hedonic prices and the demand for clean air. J. Environ. Economics and Management 5, 81-102.

Belsley D.A., Kuh, E. and Welsch, R.E. (1980) Regression Diagnostics. Identifying Influential Data and Sources of Collinearity. New York: Wiley.