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The Boston data frame has 506 rows and 14 columns.
Boston
This data frame contains the following columns:
crimper capita crime rate by town.
znproportion of residential land zoned for lots over 25,000 sq.ft.
indusproportion of non-retail business acres per town.
chasCharles River dummy variable (= 1 if tract bounds river; 0 otherwise).
noxnitrogen oxides concentration (parts per 10 million).
rmaverage number of rooms per dwelling.
ageproportion of owner-occupied units built prior to 1940.
disweighted mean of distances to five Boston employment centres.
radindex of accessibility to radial highways.
taxfull-value property-tax rate per \$10,000.
ptratiopupil-teacher ratio by town.
blackwhere Bk is the proportion of blacks by town.
lstatlower status of the population (percent).
medvmedian value of owner-occupied homes in \$1000s.
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