The effect of social affinity and predictive horizon on churn prediction using diffusion modeling

Social Network Analysis and Mining

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-12

  Baras, Dorit ^a   Ronen, Amir ^a   Yom Tov, Elad ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Churn prediction; Diffusion processes; Social networks; Telco

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; FORECASTING; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

CHURN PREDICTIONS; DIFFUSION MODEL; DIFFUSION PROCESS; MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; PRODUCTS AND SERVICES; SERVICE PROVIDER; SOCIAL INFLUENCE; TELCO;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 84938379635     PISSN: 18695450     EISSN: 18695469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13278-014-0232-2     Document Type: Article

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