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The file housing.sav (also available as a text file) is "a random sample of records of resales of homes from Feb 15 to Apr 30, 1993 from the files maintained by the Albuquerque Board of Realtors. This type of data is collected by multiple listing agencies in many cities and is used by realtors as an information base." There are 117 records in this database.
Variable Names:
- Price = Selling price (in dollars)
- SquareFeet = Square feet of living space
- AgeYears = Age of home (years)
- NumberFeatures = Number out of 11 features (dishwasher, refrigerator, microwave, disposer, washer, intercom, skylight(s), compactor, dryer, handicap fit, cable TV access
- Northeast = Located in northeast sector of city (Yes or No)
- CustomBuild = Custom built (Yes or No)
- CornerLot = Corner location (Yes or No)
The original data set had selling price in hundreds of dollars, but I found it useful to convert this to dollars. This data set also had a column for annual taxes, which I did not include in this data set.
Source:
lib.stat.cmu.edu/DASL/DataArchive.html The Data and Story Library. Link last checked on May 11, 2004. "DASL (pronounced "dazzle") is an online library of datafiles and stories that illustrate the use of basic statistics methods. We hope to provide data from a wide variety of topics so that statistics teachers can find real-world examples that will be interesting to their students. Use DASL's powerful search engine to locate the story or datafile of interest."