Churn prediction model in retail banking using fuzzy C-means algorithm

Informatica (Ljubljana)

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 243-248

  Popović, Džulijana ^a   Bašić, Bojana Dalbelo ^b  

^a Consumer Finance ^*  (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Churn prediction; Distance of k instances fuzzy sum; Fuzzy c means algorithm; Fuzzy transitional condition of the first degree; Uzzy transitional condition of the second degree

Indexed keywords

CHURN PREDICTION; DISTANCE OF K INSTANCES FUZZY SUM; FUZZY C-MEANS ALGORITHM; FUZZY TRANSITIONAL CONDITION OF THE FIRST DEGREE; UZZY TRANSITIONAL CONDITION OF THE SECOND DEGREE;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; COPYING; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FUZZY SYSTEMS; PUBLIC RELATIONS; SALES; SET THEORY;

FUZZY CLUSTERING;

EID: 67049144713     PISSN: 03505596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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