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Using predictive analytics to reduce churn

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25 points by toumhi · 5 comments

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kevindewalt

I'm the author of this post - please let me know if you have any questions.

  • pps43

    Title is misleading. The article only describes univariate analysis (screening of independent variables).

    One can build a model to predict churn from those independent variables (e.g., by just adding them up), but then there's out-of-time and out-of-sample validation, monitoring, and other boring, but important things.

    • kevindewalt

      Agree 100%.

      And we like the "boring" things. But I don't see why doing univariate analysis doesn't deliver on the promise of the post. Contrasted with guessing, that is.

    • hammock

      Do you have any reading on that?

      • pps43

        Online material on this subject is scattered, but there are good books like Regression Modeling Strategies by Frank E. Harrell and Credit Risk Scorecards by Naeem Siddiqi.

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