Churn prediction in telecommunication industry using rough set approach

Studies in Computational Intelligence

Volumn 572, Issue , 2015, Pages 83-95

  Amin, Adnan ^a   Shehzad, Saeed ^b   Khan, Changez ^a   Ali, Imtiaz ^a   Anwar, Sajid ^a  

^a Institute of Management Sciences   (Pakistan)

^b City University of Science and Technology   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Churn Prediction; Classification; Rough Set Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84914131089     PISSN: 1860949X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-10774-5_8     Document Type: Article

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