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Predicting Customer Churn in Retailing
University of Borås, Faculty of Librarianship, Information, Education and IT. School of Informatics University of Skovde.
Dept. of Computing Jonköping University.
University of Borås, Faculty of Librarianship, Information, Education and IT.
School of Informatics University of Skövde.
2022 (English)Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Customer churn is one of the most challenging problems for digital retailers. With significantly higher costs for acquiring new customers than retaining existing ones, knowledge about which customers are likely to churn becomes essential. This paper reports a case study where a data-driven approach to churn prediction is used for predicting churners and gaining insights about the problem domain. The real-world data set used contains approximately 200 000 customers, describing each customer using more than 50 features. In the pre-processing, exploration, modeling and analysis, attributes related to recency, frequency, and monetary concepts are identified and utilized. In addition, correlations and feature importance are used to discover and understand churn indicators. One important finding is that the churn rate highly depends on the number of previous purchases. In the segment consisting of customers with only one previous purchase, more than 75% will churn, i.e., not make another purchase in the coming year. For customers with at least four previous purchases, the corresponding churn rate is around 25%. Further analysis shows that churning customers in general, and as expected, make smaller purchases and visit the online store less often. In the experimentation, three modeling techniques are evaluated, and the results show that, in particular, Gradient Boosting models can predict churners with relatively high accuracy while obtaining a good balance between precision and recall.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
IEEE, 2022. p. 635-640
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Rapporter och publikationer från Högskolan i Borås, ISSN 1400-0253
Keywords [en]
digital retailing, customer churn prediction, RFM analysis, correlations, feature importance, top probabilities
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Computer Sciences Other Computer and Information Science Business Administration
Research subject
Business and IT
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-29296DOI: 10.1109/ICMLA55696.2022.00105ISI: 000980994900094Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85152214345ISBN: 978-1-6654-6283-9 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hb-29296DiVA, id: diva2:1727230
Conference
21st IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Application, Bahamas, December 12-14, 2022
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Knowledge FoundationAvailable from: 2023-01-16 Created: 2023-01-16 Last updated: 2023-06-16Bibliographically approved

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