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Overview

All residential home sales in Ames, Iowa between 2006 and 2010. The data set contains many explanatory variables on the quality and quantity of physical attributes of residential homes in Iowa sold between 2006 and 2010. Most of the variables describe information a typical home buyer would like to know about a property (square footage, number of bedrooms and bathrooms, size of lot, etc.). A detailed discussion of variables can be found in the original paper referenced below.

Data Source

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).

Loading Data

CSV Download

To access the data in R, type

download.file("http://www.openintro.org/books/statdata/ames.RData",
              destfile = "ames.RData")
load("ames.RData")

To access the data in SAS, type

filename amesh url 'http://www.openintro.org/books/statdata/ames_sas.csv'