Database System Concepts
Database System Concepts
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ISBN: 9780078022159
Author: Abraham Silberschatz Professor, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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The “Boston” data set is a built-in dataset in the “MASS” library of R. The “Boston” data set contains
information about the housing values in suburbs of Boston city. First, load the “Boston” data set into
your R workspace. In Rstudio, you can click on the “Packages” tab and then on the checkbox next to
MASS. Without Rstudio, type the following command in R console:
 data(Boston,package=”MASS”)
To know more information about this dataset, type the following command in R console:
 ?Boston
Then, answer the following questions based on the dataset, using R/Rstudio:
a. How many rows and columns in this data set?

b. How many of the suburbs in this dataset bound the Charles River? (Hint: Variable chas is a
dummy variable; chas=1 means tract bounds river, 0 otherwise) You can obtain a list of suburbs
bound the Charles River with the command:
 subset(Boston,chas==1)
 You can obtain a count of the suburbs bound the Charles River by

sum(Boston$chas==1)

c. What is the probability that you randomly select a suburb that bounds the Charles River?

 

 

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