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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     Before buying a house in Tuggeranong in February, 1987, a cautious
     potential householder collected some data on houses on the market.

_V_a_l_u_e:

     The data for 20 such houses is available in the data frame
     `house', whose components are as follows 

   Price: Cost of house, in tens of thousands of dollars 

   Floor: Total floor area 

   Block: Area of land 

   Rooms: Number of main rooms 

     Age: Age of house, in years 

Cent.Heat: Indicates whether the house was centrally heated. 

_C_A_T_E_G_O_R_Y:

     Multiple regression, coplots.

_S_o_u_r_c_e:

     Dr Ray Correll, personal communication.

