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A comparison of machine learning techniques for customer churn prediction

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A comparative study on the most popular machine learning methods applied to the challenging problem of customer churning prediction in the telecommunications industry demonstrates clear superiority of the boosted versions of the models against the plain (non-boosted) versions.
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This article is published in Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory.The article was published on 2015-06-01. It has received 256 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Boosting (machine learning) & AdaBoost.

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Customer churn prediction in the telecommunication sector using a rough set approach

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