This dataset has 505 observations, each representing a sampled metropolitan LA County Census tract. It also has 7 numeric variables measuring different quantities of interest in each tract. This dataset was used and sourced from the paper see Buja et al. (2019) .

la_county

Format

A tibble with 505 rows and 7 variables:

StreetTotal

count, of the homeless people in each census tract

MedianInc1000

income, median income of households in each census tract

PercVacant

proportion, share of vacant lots in each census tract

PercMinority

proportion, share of non-Caucasian residents in each census tract

PercResidential

proportion, share of residential lots in each census tract

PercCommercial

proportion, share of commercial lots in each census tract

PercIndustrial

proportion, share of industrial lots in each census tract

Source

http://www-stat.wharton.upenn.edu/~buja/STAT-961/Homeless_LA_by_Census_Tracts.csv

References

Buja A, Brown L, Berk R, George E, Pitkin E, Traskin M, Zhang K, Zhao L (2019). “Models as approximations I: consequences illustrated with linear regression.” Statist. Sci., 34(4), 523--544. ISSN 0883-4237.