housing {randomForestSRC} | R Documentation

## Ames Iowa Housing Data

### Description

Data from the Ames Assessor's Office used in assessing values of individual residential properties sold in Ames, Iowa from 2006 to 2010. This is a regression problem and the goal is to predict "SalePrice" which records the price of a home in thousands of dollars.

### References

De Cock, D., (2011). Ames, Iowa: Alternative to the Boston housing data as an end of semester regression project. Journal of Statistics Education, 19(3), 1–14.

### Examples

    ## load the data
    data(housing, package = "randomForestSRC")

    ## the original data contains lots of missing data
    ## here's a fast but reasonably accurate way to impute the data
    housing2 <- impute(data = housing, mf.q = 10, fast = TRUE)

[Package randomForestSRC version 2.9.3 Index]