1. Title: Boston Housing Data 2. Sources: (a) Origin: This dataset was taken from the StatLib library which is maintained at Carnegie Mellon University. (b) Creator: Harrison, D. and Rubinfeld, D.L. 'Hedonic prices and the demand for clean air', J. Environ. Economics & Management, vol.5, 81-102, 1978. (c) Date: July 7, 1993 3. Past Usage: - Used in Belsley, Kuh & Welsch, 'Regression diagnostics ...', Wiley, 1980. N.B. Various transformations are used in the table on pages 244-261. - Quinlan,R. (1993). Combining Instance-Based and Model-Based Learning. In Proceedings on the Tenth International Conference of Machine Learning, 236-243, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Morgan Kaufmann. 4. Relevant Information: Concerns housing values in suburbs of Boston. 5. Number of Instances: 506 6. Number of Attributes: 13 continuous attributes (including "class" attribute "MEDV"), 1 binary-valued attribute. 7. Attribute Information: 1. CRIM per capita crime rate by town 2. ZN proportion of residential land zoned for lots over 25,000 sq.ft. 3. INDUS proportion of non-retail business acres per town 4. CHAS Charles River dummy variable (= 1 if tract bounds river; 0 otherwise) 5. NOX nitric oxides concentration (parts per 10 million) 6. RM average number of rooms per dwelling 7. AGE proportion of owner-occupied units built prior to 1940 8. DIS weighted distances to five Boston employment centres 9. RAD index of accessibility to radial highways 10. TAX full-value property-tax rate per $10,000 11. PTRATIO pupil-teacher ratio by town 12. B 1000(Bk - 0.63)^2 where Bk is the proportion of blacks by town 13. LSTAT % lower status of the population 14. MEDV Median value of owner-occupied homes in $1000's 8. Missing Attribute Values: None.