Churn prediction in telecom using Random Forest and PSO based data balancing in combination with various feature selection strategies

Computers and Electrical Engineering

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1808-1819

  Idris, Adnan ^a,b   Rizwan, Muhammad ^a   Khan, Asifullah ^a  

^a PAKISTAN INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

^b University of Poonch Rawalakot   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AREA UNDER THE CURVES; DATA DISTRIBUTION; DATA SETS; F-SCORE; FEATURE REDUCTION; HIGH DIMENSIONALITY; K NEAREST NEIGHBOURS (K-NN); PREDICTION MODEL; PREDICTION PERFORMANCE; PRINCIPLE COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RANDOM FORESTS; TELECOM; UNDER-SAMPLING;

DATA PROCESSING; DECISION TREES; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO); PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TELECOMMUNICATION INDUSTRY;

FORECASTING;

EID: 84870060529     PISSN: 00457906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compeleceng.2012.09.001     Document Type: Article

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