Journal article 320 views 96 downloads
A novel customer churn prediction model for the telecommunication industry using data transformation methods and feature selection
PLOS ONE, Volume: 17, Issue: 12, Start page: e0278095
Swansea University Author: Abedin Abedin
-
PDF | Version of Record
© 2022 Sana et al. Distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (CC BY 4.0).
Download (2.7MB)
DOI (Published version): 10.1371/journal.pone.0278095
Abstract
Customer churn is one of the most critical issues faced by the telecommunication industry (TCI). Researchers and analysts leverage customer relationship management (CRM) data through the use of various machine learning models and data transformation methods to identify the customers who are likely t...
Published in: | PLOS ONE |
---|---|
ISSN: | 1932-6203 |
Published: |
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2022
|
Online Access: |
Check full text
|
URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa64261 |
Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
first_indexed |
2023-09-18T16:15:52Z |
---|---|
last_indexed |
2023-09-18T16:15:52Z |
id |
cronfa64261 |
recordtype |
SURis |
fullrecord |
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rfc1807 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"><bib-version>v2</bib-version><id>64261</id><entry>2023-08-31</entry><title>A novel customer churn prediction model for the telecommunication industry using data transformation methods and feature selection</title><swanseaauthors><author><sid>4ed8c020eae0c9bec4f5d9495d86d415</sid><firstname>Abedin</firstname><surname>Abedin</surname><name>Abedin Abedin</name><active>true</active><ethesisStudent>false</ethesisStudent></author></swanseaauthors><date>2023-08-31</date><deptcode>BAF</deptcode><abstract>Customer churn is one of the most critical issues faced by the telecommunication industry (TCI). Researchers and analysts leverage customer relationship management (CRM) data through the use of various machine learning models and data transformation methods to identify the customers who are likely to churn. While several studies have been conducted in the customer churn prediction (CCP) context in TCI, a review of performance of the various models stemming from these studies show a clear room for improvement. Therefore, to improve the accuracy of customer churn prediction in the telecommunication industry, we have investigated several machine learning models, as well as, data transformation methods. To optimize the prediction models, feature selection has been performed using univariate technique and the best hyperparameters have been selected using the grid search method. Subsequently, experiments have been conducted on several publicly available TCI datasets to assess the performance of our models in terms of the widely used evaluation metrics, such as AUC, precision, recall, and F-measure. Through a rigorous experimental study, we have demonstrated the benefit of applying data transformation methods as well as feature selection while training an optimized CCP model. Our proposed technique improved the prediction performance by up to 26.2% and 17% in terms of AUC and F-measure, respectively.</abstract><type>Journal Article</type><journal>PLOS ONE</journal><volume>17</volume><journalNumber>12</journalNumber><paginationStart>e0278095</paginationStart><paginationEnd/><publisher>Public Library of Science (PLoS)</publisher><placeOfPublication/><isbnPrint/><isbnElectronic/><issnPrint/><issnElectronic>1932-6203</issnElectronic><keywords>Customer churn, telecommunication industry, customer relationship management</keywords><publishedDay>1</publishedDay><publishedMonth>12</publishedMonth><publishedYear>2022</publishedYear><publishedDate>2022-12-01</publishedDate><doi>10.1371/journal.pone.0278095</doi><url>http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0278095</url><notes/><college>COLLEGE NANME</college><department>Accounting and Finance</department><CollegeCode>COLLEGE CODE</CollegeCode><DepartmentCode>BAF</DepartmentCode><institution>Swansea University</institution><apcterm/><funders/><projectreference/><lastEdited>2023-09-19T16:23:02.0646866</lastEdited><Created>2023-08-31T17:59:42.0643479</Created><path><level id="1">Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences</level><level id="2">School of Management - Accounting and Finance</level></path><authors><author><firstname>Joydeb Kumar</firstname><surname>Sana</surname><order>1</order></author><author><firstname>Abedin</firstname><surname>Abedin</surname><order>2</order></author><author><firstname>M. Sohel</firstname><surname>Rahman</surname><order>3</order></author><author><firstname>M. Saifur</firstname><surname>Rahman</surname><orcid>0000-0002-9887-4456</orcid><order>4</order></author></authors><documents><document><filename>64261__28565__278e9f973af74b22ad4c152fe035fed6.pdf</filename><originalFilename>64261.VOR.pdf</originalFilename><uploaded>2023-09-18T17:13:30.6980335</uploaded><type>Output</type><contentLength>2829709</contentLength><contentType>application/pdf</contentType><version>Version of Record</version><cronfaStatus>true</cronfaStatus><documentNotes>© 2022 Sana et al. Distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (CC BY 4.0).</documentNotes><copyrightCorrect>true</copyrightCorrect><language>eng</language><licence>https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</licence></document></documents><OutputDurs/></rfc1807> |
spelling |
v2 64261 2023-08-31 A novel customer churn prediction model for the telecommunication industry using data transformation methods and feature selection 4ed8c020eae0c9bec4f5d9495d86d415 Abedin Abedin Abedin Abedin true false 2023-08-31 BAF Customer churn is one of the most critical issues faced by the telecommunication industry (TCI). Researchers and analysts leverage customer relationship management (CRM) data through the use of various machine learning models and data transformation methods to identify the customers who are likely to churn. While several studies have been conducted in the customer churn prediction (CCP) context in TCI, a review of performance of the various models stemming from these studies show a clear room for improvement. Therefore, to improve the accuracy of customer churn prediction in the telecommunication industry, we have investigated several machine learning models, as well as, data transformation methods. To optimize the prediction models, feature selection has been performed using univariate technique and the best hyperparameters have been selected using the grid search method. Subsequently, experiments have been conducted on several publicly available TCI datasets to assess the performance of our models in terms of the widely used evaluation metrics, such as AUC, precision, recall, and F-measure. Through a rigorous experimental study, we have demonstrated the benefit of applying data transformation methods as well as feature selection while training an optimized CCP model. Our proposed technique improved the prediction performance by up to 26.2% and 17% in terms of AUC and F-measure, respectively. Journal Article PLOS ONE 17 12 e0278095 Public Library of Science (PLoS) 1932-6203 Customer churn, telecommunication industry, customer relationship management 1 12 2022 2022-12-01 10.1371/journal.pone.0278095 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0278095 COLLEGE NANME Accounting and Finance COLLEGE CODE BAF Swansea University 2023-09-19T16:23:02.0646866 2023-08-31T17:59:42.0643479 Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences School of Management - Accounting and Finance Joydeb Kumar Sana 1 Abedin Abedin 2 M. Sohel Rahman 3 M. Saifur Rahman 0000-0002-9887-4456 4 64261__28565__278e9f973af74b22ad4c152fe035fed6.pdf 64261.VOR.pdf 2023-09-18T17:13:30.6980335 Output 2829709 application/pdf Version of Record true © 2022 Sana et al. Distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (CC BY 4.0). true eng https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
title |
A novel customer churn prediction model for the telecommunication industry using data transformation methods and feature selection |
spellingShingle |
A novel customer churn prediction model for the telecommunication industry using data transformation methods and feature selection Abedin Abedin |
title_short |
A novel customer churn prediction model for the telecommunication industry using data transformation methods and feature selection |
title_full |
A novel customer churn prediction model for the telecommunication industry using data transformation methods and feature selection |
title_fullStr |
A novel customer churn prediction model for the telecommunication industry using data transformation methods and feature selection |
title_full_unstemmed |
A novel customer churn prediction model for the telecommunication industry using data transformation methods and feature selection |
title_sort |
A novel customer churn prediction model for the telecommunication industry using data transformation methods and feature selection |
author_id_str_mv |
4ed8c020eae0c9bec4f5d9495d86d415 |
author_id_fullname_str_mv |
4ed8c020eae0c9bec4f5d9495d86d415_***_Abedin Abedin |
author |
Abedin Abedin |
author2 |
Joydeb Kumar Sana Abedin Abedin M. Sohel Rahman M. Saifur Rahman |
format |
Journal article |
container_title |
PLOS ONE |
container_volume |
17 |
container_issue |
12 |
container_start_page |
e0278095 |
publishDate |
2022 |
institution |
Swansea University |
issn |
1932-6203 |
doi_str_mv |
10.1371/journal.pone.0278095 |
publisher |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
college_str |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
hierarchytype |
|
hierarchy_top_id |
facultyofhumanitiesandsocialsciences |
hierarchy_top_title |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
hierarchy_parent_id |
facultyofhumanitiesandsocialsciences |
hierarchy_parent_title |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
department_str |
School of Management - Accounting and Finance{{{_:::_}}}Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences{{{_:::_}}}School of Management - Accounting and Finance |
url |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0278095 |
document_store_str |
1 |
active_str |
0 |
description |
Customer churn is one of the most critical issues faced by the telecommunication industry (TCI). Researchers and analysts leverage customer relationship management (CRM) data through the use of various machine learning models and data transformation methods to identify the customers who are likely to churn. While several studies have been conducted in the customer churn prediction (CCP) context in TCI, a review of performance of the various models stemming from these studies show a clear room for improvement. Therefore, to improve the accuracy of customer churn prediction in the telecommunication industry, we have investigated several machine learning models, as well as, data transformation methods. To optimize the prediction models, feature selection has been performed using univariate technique and the best hyperparameters have been selected using the grid search method. Subsequently, experiments have been conducted on several publicly available TCI datasets to assess the performance of our models in terms of the widely used evaluation metrics, such as AUC, precision, recall, and F-measure. Through a rigorous experimental study, we have demonstrated the benefit of applying data transformation methods as well as feature selection while training an optimized CCP model. Our proposed technique improved the prediction performance by up to 26.2% and 17% in terms of AUC and F-measure, respectively. |
published_date |
2022-12-01T16:23:05Z |
_version_ |
1777479959236837376 |
score |
11.029921 |