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AirBnb room analysis
Section 1: Introduction
Airbnb has emerged as a phenomenon that has revolutionized hotel industry. It was only a matter of time that an in depth analysis was performed regarding the pricing of the rooms relative to different parameters. The various parameters identified that could have affected the room rent are room type, location which
in this case is longitude, gender preferences, availability through various time periods, reviews etc. The influences that various parameters have on the price of the Airbnb room occupied and the preference of a particular room type is what has been studied through this report.
For the purpose of the analysis there were two datasets taken which contained information regarding the different rooms and their prices. The first dataset includes individual rooms listed on Airbnb and their respective parameter values such as location (zip code, latitude and longitude), property and room type, room specifications, availability through various time periods, reviews and prices. The second dataset takes into account the information of the 30 students who booked Airbnb rooms. This information included their gender, property and room type, zip code, specifications of the room and price.
In the paper “Key Factors Affecting the Price of Airbnb Listings: A Geographically Weighted Approach; by Zhihua Zhang, Rachel J. C. Chen, Lee D. Han, and Lu Yang”; the researchers have tried to observe how much geographical location of the Airbnb rooms affects the pricing which used the GLM approach. Similarly in “Price determinants of sharing economy based accommodation rental: A study of listings from 33 cities on Airbnb.com; Dan Wang, Juan L.Nicolau”; various parameters such as host attributes, site and property attributes, amenities and services, rental rules, and online review ratings have been studied to understand the influence of these parameters on the pricing of the rooms.    
Using these papers as groundwork one has performed analysis using our own parameters in order to understand what affects the pricing of an Airbnb room. One has performed statistical analysis in this report to highlight any factors that do affect the price of the room. The analysis includes the significance of various assumptions regarding the proportion of room type, price of private room after outlier removal, availability of different room type, price of accommodation using longitude and relationship between gender and room type. Finally, recommendations will be made about how pricing is affected by various parameters and the preferences of customers for a room type.
Section 2: Is 40% a plausible value for the proportion of private room in Airbnb room type?
data presentation
    Summary Statistics
     
     
     
    Count
    Proportion
    Entire home/apt
    6182
    61.80%
    Hotel room
    129
    1.30%
    Private room
    3523
    35.20%
    Shared room
    166
    1.70%
    Total
    10000
    100.00%
The provided pie chart illustrate that most people prefer to choose Entire home/apt room type with exactly 61.80%. Private room is second preferable room type, which is about 36%. From the chart, we can clearly say that most people doesn’t want to stay in hotel room and either in Shared room.
Inferential statistics
The hypothesis for the given problem are:
H0: The plausible value for the proportion of private rooms in Airbnb Type is 40% i.e. p=0.4
H1: The plausible value for the proportion of private rooms in Airbnb Type is not equal to 40% i.e. p is not equal to 0.4.
Under the null hypothesis we have:
Sample size (n) = 10000
Sample proportion (phat) = 0.352
Standard Error (SE) = =...
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