Boston Housing Regression Task

A regression task for the mlbench::BostonHousing2 data set. This is the corrected data using the corrected median value (cmedv) as target. The uncorrected target (medv) is removed from the data.

Format

R6::R6Class inheriting from TaskRegr.

Construction

mlr_tasks$get("boston_housing")
tsk("boston_housing")

Meta Information

• Task type: “regr”

• Dimensions: 506x18

• Properties: -

• Has Missings: FALSE

• Target: “cmedv”

• Features: “age”, “b”, “chas”, “crim”, “dis”, “indus”, “lat”, “lon”, “lstat”, “nox”, “ptratio”, “rad”, “rm”, “tax”, “town”, “tract”, “zn”

See also

• Chapter in the mlr3book: https://mlr3book.mlr-org.com/chapters/chapter2/data_and_basic_modeling.html

• Package mlr3data for more toy tasks.

• Package mlr3oml for downloading tasks from https://www.openml.org.

• Package mlr3viz for some generic visualizations.

• Dictionary of Tasks: mlr_tasks

• as.data.table(mlr_tasks) for a table of available Tasks in the running session (depending on the loaded packages).

• mlr3fselect and mlr3filters for feature selection and feature filtering.

• Extension packages for additional task types:

  • Unsupervised clustering: mlr3cluster

  • Probabilistic supervised regression and survival analysis: https://mlr3proba.mlr-org.com/.

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