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Failure to identify potential churners affects significantly a company revenues and services that can provide. Imbalance distribution of instances between churners and non-churners and the size of customer dataset are the concerns when building a churn prediction model. This paper presents a local PCA classifier approach to avoid these problems by comparing eigenvalues of the best principal component. The experiments were carried out on a large real-world Telecommunication dataset and assessed on a churn prediction task. The experimental results showed that local PCA classifier generally outperformed Naive Bayes, Logistic regression, SVM and Decision Tree C4.5 in terms of true churn rate.
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Sato, T., Huang, B.Q., Huang, Y., Kechadi, M.T., Buckley, B. (2010). Using PCA to Predict Customer Churn in Telecommunication Dataset. In: Cao, L., Zhong, J., Feng, Y. (eds) Advanced Data Mining and Applications. ADMA 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6441. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17313-4_32
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