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Book 77

The document outlines a series of exercises related to the Boston housing data set, including tasks such as removing specific observations, calculating statistical measures, and creating visualizations to explore relationships among predictors. It prompts the user to investigate predictors' associations with gas mileage and crime rates, as well as to analyze the characteristics of various suburbs. Additionally, it asks for specific statistical insights, such as the median pupil-teacher ratio and the number of suburbs with certain housing characteristics.

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Book 77

The document outlines a series of exercises related to the Boston housing data set, including tasks such as removing specific observations, calculating statistical measures, and creating visualizations to explore relationships among predictors. It prompts the user to investigate predictors' associations with gas mileage and crime rates, as well as to analyze the characteristics of various suburbs. Additionally, it asks for specific statistical insights, such as the median pupil-teacher ratio and the number of suburbs with certain housing characteristics.

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4 Exercises 67

(d) Now remove the 10th through 85th observations. What is the
range, mean, and standard deviation of each predictor in the
subset of the data that remains?
(e) Using the full data set, investigate the predictors graphically,
using scatterplots or other tools of your choice. Create some plots
highlighting the relationships among the predictors. Comment
on your findings.
(f) Suppose that we wish to predict gas mileage (mpg) on the basis
of the other variables. Do your plots suggest that any of the
other variables might be useful in predicting mpg? Justify your
answer.
10. This exercise involves the Boston housing data set.
(a) To begin, load in the Boston data set, which is part of the ISLP
library.
(b) How many rows are in this data set? How many columns? What
do the rows and columns represent?
(c) Make some pairwise scatterplots of the predictors (columns) in
this data set. Describe your findings.
(d) Are any of the predictors associated with per capita crime rate?
If so, explain the relationship.
(e) Do any of the suburbs of Boston appear to have particularly
high crime rates? Tax rates? Pupil-teacher ratios? Comment on
the range of each predictor.
(f) How many of the suburbs in this data set bound the Charles
river?
(g) What is the median pupil-teacher ratio among the towns in this
data set?
(h) Which suburb of Boston has lowest median value of owner-
occupied homes? What are the values of the other predictors
for that suburb, and how do those values compare to the overall
ranges for those predictors? Comment on your findings.
(i) In this data set, how many of the suburbs average more than
seven rooms per dwelling? More than eight rooms per dwelling?
Comment on the suburbs that average more than eight rooms
per dwelling.

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