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MAT3024 DETAILS OF ASSIGNMENT (Sustainable Development Goals 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities) A housing dataset named HSdata

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MAT3024

DETAILS OF ASSIGNMENT

(Sustainable Development Goals 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities)

A housing dataset named HSdata.csv was given. In this dataset, there are ten explanatory

variables and one response variable. The details of the dataset are provided in the table below.

Table 1: Details of the variables for housing dataset

Variable Variable name Details

crim

per capita crime rate by town.

zn

proportion of residential land zoned for lots over 25,000 sq.ft.

x3

indus

proportion of non-retail business acres per town.

nox

nitrogen oxides concentration (parts per 10 million).

rm

average number of rooms per dwelling.

age

proportion of owner-occupied units built prior to 1940.

x7

dis

weighted mean of distances to five Boston employment centres.

tax

full-value property-tax rate per $10,000.

ptratio

pupil-teacher ratio by town.

lstat

lower status of the population (percent).

y

medv

median value of owner-occupied homes in per $1000s.

You are required to do a simple linear regression analysis by considering one explanatory

variable only. The chosen explanatory variable is depending on the last digit of your student ID.

For example, if your student ID is 19083456, then use

as the explanatory variable. You may

consider to include the following points in your report:

1. Examine the data using graphs.

2. Fit the simple linear regression model.

3. Perform further analysis on the fitted model.