Boston Data#
A data set containing housing values in 506 suburbs of Boston.
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.lstat
: lower status of the population (percent).medv
: median value of owner-occupied homes in $1000s.
Notes#
This dataset was obtained from, and is slightly modified from, the
Boston dataset that is part of the R
library MASS
. References are
available in the MASS library.
from ISLP import load_data
Boston = load_data('Boston')
Boston.columns
Index(['crim', 'zn', 'indus', 'chas', 'nox', 'rm', 'age', 'dis', 'rad', 'tax',
'ptratio', 'lstat', 'medv'],
dtype='object')
Boston.shape
(506, 13)
Boston.columns
Index(['crim', 'zn', 'indus', 'chas', 'nox', 'rm', 'age', 'dis', 'rad', 'tax',
'ptratio', 'lstat', 'medv'],
dtype='object')
Boston.describe()
crim | zn | indus | chas | nox | rm | age | dis | rad | tax | ptratio | lstat | medv | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
count | 506.000000 | 506.000000 | 506.000000 | 506.000000 | 506.000000 | 506.000000 | 506.000000 | 506.000000 | 506.000000 | 506.000000 | 506.000000 | 506.000000 | 506.000000 |
mean | 3.613524 | 11.363636 | 11.136779 | 0.069170 | 0.554695 | 6.284634 | 68.574901 | 3.795043 | 9.549407 | 408.237154 | 18.455534 | 12.653063 | 22.532806 |
std | 8.601545 | 23.322453 | 6.860353 | 0.253994 | 0.115878 | 0.702617 | 28.148861 | 2.105710 | 8.707259 | 168.537116 | 2.164946 | 7.141062 | 9.197104 |
min | 0.006320 | 0.000000 | 0.460000 | 0.000000 | 0.385000 | 3.561000 | 2.900000 | 1.129600 | 1.000000 | 187.000000 | 12.600000 | 1.730000 | 5.000000 |
25% | 0.082045 | 0.000000 | 5.190000 | 0.000000 | 0.449000 | 5.885500 | 45.025000 | 2.100175 | 4.000000 | 279.000000 | 17.400000 | 6.950000 | 17.025000 |
50% | 0.256510 | 0.000000 | 9.690000 | 0.000000 | 0.538000 | 6.208500 | 77.500000 | 3.207450 | 5.000000 | 330.000000 | 19.050000 | 11.360000 | 21.200000 |
75% | 3.677083 | 12.500000 | 18.100000 | 0.000000 | 0.624000 | 6.623500 | 94.075000 | 5.188425 | 24.000000 | 666.000000 | 20.200000 | 16.955000 | 25.000000 |
max | 88.976200 | 100.000000 | 27.740000 | 1.000000 | 0.871000 | 8.780000 | 100.000000 | 12.126500 | 24.000000 | 711.000000 | 22.000000 | 37.970000 | 50.000000 |