This dataset contains information collected by the U.S Census Service concerning housing in the area of Boston Mass. It was obtained from the StatLib archive (http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/datasets/boston), and has been used extensively throughout the literature to benchmark algorithms. However, these comparisons were primarily done outside of Delve and are thus somewhat suspect. The dataset is small in size with only 506 cases. There are 14 attributes in each case of the dataset. They are: CRIM - per capita crime rate by town ZN - proportion of residential land zoned for lots over 25,000 sq.ft. INDUS - proportion of non-retail business acres per town. CHAS - Charles River dummy variable (1 if tract bounds river; 0 otherwise) NOX - nitric oxides concentration (parts per 10 million) RM - average number of rooms per dwelling AGE - proportion of owner-occupied units built prior to 1940 DIS - weighted distances to five Boston employment centres RAD - index of accessibility to radial highways TAX - full-value property-tax rate per $10,000 PTRATIO - pupil-teacher ratio by town B - 1000(Bk - 0.63)^2 where Bk is the proportion of blacks by town LSTAT - % lower status of the population MEDV - Median value of owner-occupied homes in $1000's

Box plot is a method for graphically depicting groups of numerical data through their quartiles. Box plots may also have lines extending vertically from the boxes (whiskers) indicating variability outside the upper and lower quartiles, hence the terms box-and-whisker plot and box-and-whisker diagram. Outliers may be plotted as individual points.

Scatter plot is a type of plot or mathematical diagram using Cartesian coordinates to display values for typically two variables for a set of data. The data are displayed as a collection of points, each having the value of one variable determining the position on the horizontal axis and the value of the other variable determining the position on the vertical axis.

The Z-score is the signed number of standard deviations by which the value of an observation or data point is above the mean value of what is being observed or measured.

The intuition reson Z-score is to describe any data point by finding their relationship with the Standard Deviation and Mean of the group of data points.

Z-score is finding the distribution of data where mean is 0 and standard deviation is 1 i.e. normal distribution.

While calculating the Z-score we re-scale and center the data and look for data points which are too far from zero. These data points which are way too far from zero will be treated as the outliers.

In most of the cases a threshold of 3 or -3 is used i.e if the Z-score value is greater than or less than 3 or -3 respectively, that data point will be identified as outliers.

The interquartile range (IQR), also called the midspread or middle 50%, or technically H-spread, is a measure of statistical dispersion, being equal to the difference between 75th and 25th percentiles, or between upper and lower quartiles, IQR = Q3 − Q1. In other words, the IQR is the first quartile subtracted from the third quartile; these quartiles can be clearly seen on a box plot on the data.