Customer event history for churn prediction: How long is long enough?
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Customer event history for churn prediction: How long is long enough?
The key question of this study is: How long should the length of customer event history be for customer churn prediction? While most studies in predictive churn modeling aim to improve models by data augmentation or algorithm improvement, this study focuses on a another dimension: time window optimization with respect to predictive performance. This paper first presents a formalization of the t...
متن کاملDrug patent protection: how long is long enough?
Bill S-17, Parliament’s effort to comply with international trade rules by extending pharmaceutical patent protection to 20 years, inadvertently opened the door to a broader investigation of the inner workings of the country’s pharmaceutical patent legislation. Industry Minister Brian Tobin says the bill must become law by August or Canada “will be in trouble with the World Trade Organization.”...
متن کاملThromboprophylaxis in orthopedic surgery: how long is long enough?
Pharmacologic thromboprophylaxis with low-molecular-weight heparins, vitamin K antagonists, or fondaparinux is well tolerated and effective in preventing venous thromboembolism (VTE) in major orthopedic surgery but is often limited to in-hospital use. However, 45% to 80% of all symptomatic VTE events occur after hospital discharge. Extended-duration VTE prophylaxis for 28 to 35 days reduces ris...
متن کاملAntibiotics in childhood pneumonia: how long is long enough?
Improved access to healthcare, vaccines and treatment with antibiotics has reduced global mortality from childhood community-acquired pneumonia. However, as respiratory viruses are responsible for most episodes of pneumonia, important questions remain over who should receive these agents and the length of each treatment course. Worldwide concerns with increasing antibiotic resistance in respira...
متن کاملTreatment of opportunistic mycoses: how long is long enough?
For most opportunistic mycoses no optimum duration of antifungal therapy has been defined. Although a long course of therapy is prudent, especially for mycelial fungal infections, excessively and unnecessarily extended courses of treatment incur a risk of toxicity and the expense of the therapeutic regimen. On the basis of existing reports on the pathogenesis and the effect of duration of thera...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Expert Systems with Applications
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0957-4174
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2012.07.006