% The Boston house-price data of Harrison, D. and Rubinfeld, D.L. 'Hedonic % prices and the demand for clean air', J. Environ. Economics & Management, % vol.5, 81-102, 1978. % Used in Belsley, Kuh & Welsch, 'Regression diagnostic ...', Wiley, 1980. % N.B. Various transformations are used in the table on % pages 244-261 of the latter. % % augmented with lattitude-longitude coordinates % by Gilley, O.W., and R. Kelley Pace. 1996. ``On the Harrison and % Rubinfeld Data,'' {\sl Journal of Environmental Economics and Management}, % Vol. 31 pp. 403-405. % % Variables (in columns) order: % 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 nitric 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 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 % B 1000(Bk - 0.63)^2 where Bk is the proportion of blacks by town % LSTAT % lower status of the population % MEDV Median value of owner-occupied homes in $1000's % latt Lattitude coordinates % long Longitude coordinates load boston.dat; % Harrison-Rubinfeld data [n k] = size(boston); y = boston(:,k-2); % median house values latt = boston(:,k-1); % lattitude coordinates long = boston(:,k); % longitude coordinates x = [ones(n,1) boston(:,1:k-3)]; vnames = strvcat('hprice','constant','crime','zoning','industry', ... 'charlesr','noxsq','rooms2','houseage','distance','access','taxrate', ... 'pupil/teacher','blackpop','lowclass'); result = ols(y,x); prt(result,vnames);