Customer profitability forecasting using Big Data analytics: A case study of the insurance industry

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 101, Issue , 2016, Pages 554-564

  Fang, Kuangnan ^a   Jiang, Yefei ^b   Song, Malin ^c  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FU JEN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c ANHUI UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

Author keywords

Big data; Customer profitability; Insurance industry; Random forest regression

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; FORECASTING; INSURANCE; PROFITABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SALES;

CASH FLOW; CUSTOMER PROFITABILITY; DATA ANALYTICS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; FORECASTING METHODS; INSURANCE INDUSTRY; PURCHASING BEHAVIORS; RANDOM FORESTS;

BIG DATA;

EID: 85027927683     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2016.09.011     Document Type: Article

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