Data mining and causal modeling of customer behaviors

Telecommunication Systems

Volumn 21, Issue 2-4, 2002, Pages 349-381

  Cox Jr , Louis Anthony ^a  

^a Cox Associates ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Attrition; Causality; Customer churn; Data mining; State transition modeling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATA TRANSFER; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

STATE TRANSITION MODELING;

DATA MINING;

EID: 0141797359     PISSN: 10184864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020911018130     Document Type: Review

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