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  It was published by Dean De Cock in [Ames, Iowa: Alternative to the Boston Housing Data as an End of Semester Regression Project](https://jse.amstat.org/v19n3/decock.pdf).
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  ## Dataset Details
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  - **Funded by [optional]:** [More Information Needed]
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  ### Dataset Sources [optional]
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  <!-- Address questions around how the dataset is intended to be used. -->
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- ### Direct Use
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- ## Dataset Structure
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  ## Dataset Creation
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  ### Source Data
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  <!-- This section describes the source data (e.g. news text and headlines, social media posts, translated sentences, ...). -->
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- #### Data Collection and Processing
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- #### Who are the source data producers?
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- ### Annotations [optional]
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- ## Bias, Risks, and Limitations
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- ### Recommendations
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  ## Citation [optional]
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- ## Glossary [optional]
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  It was published by Dean De Cock in [Ames, Iowa: Alternative to the Boston Housing Data as an End of Semester Regression Project](https://jse.amstat.org/v19n3/decock.pdf).
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  ## Dataset Details
 
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+ This dataset was designed as an alternative for the well-known [Boston Housing Data Set](http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/datasets/boston), mostly for teaching purposes.
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  ## Dataset Creation
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+ The original author of this dataset was motivated to assemble a larger and more contemporary dataset: the boston housing dataset covers data from the 1970s and only has 506 observations, ie prices, over 14 variables.
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+ The original author of the dataset obtain the raw data directly from the Ames, Iowa, City Assessor’s Office.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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  **BibTeX:**
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+ @article{de2011ames,
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+ title={Ames, Iowa: Alternative to the Boston housing data as an end of semester regression project},
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+ author={De Cock, Dean},
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+ journal={Journal of Statistics Education},
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+ year={2011},
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+ publisher={Taylor \& Francis}
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