Use of Logistic Regression for Understanding and Prediction of Customer Churn in Telecommunications

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989100%3A27510%2F19%3A10242770" target="_blank" >RIV/61989100:27510/19:10242770 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Use of Logistic Regression for Understanding and Prediction of Customer Churn in Telecommunications

Original language description

Customer churn, loss of customers due to switch to another service provider or non-renewal of commitment, is very common in highly competitive and saturated markets such as telecommunications. Predictive models need to be implemented to identify customers who are at risk of churning and also to discover the key drivers of churn. The aim of this paper is to use demographic and service usage variables to estimate logistic regression model to predict customer churn in European Telecommunications provider and to find the factors influencing customer churn. An interesting findings came out of the estimated model - younger customers who are shorter time with company, who use mobile data and sms more than traditional calls, having occasional problem with paying bills, with students account and ending contract in the near future are typical representatives of customers who tend to leave the company. An interaction terms added as explanatory variables showed that effect of usage of data and voice vary depending on the year of birth. The quality of the logistic regression model was assessed by Hosmer-Lemeshow test and pseudo R squared measures. An independent testing data set was further used to evaluate the predictive ability of the model by computation of performance metrics such as the area under the ROC curve (AUC), sensitivity and precision. The resulting model was able to catch 94.8% of customers who in fact left the company. Quality of the model was confirmed also by high value of AUC metric equal to 0.9759. Logistic regression represents a very useful tool in prediction of customer churn not only thanks to its interpretability, but also for its predictive power.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50204 - Business and management

Project

<a href="/en/project/EE2.3.20.0296" target="_blank" >EE2.3.20.0296: Research team for modelling of economic and financial processes at VSB-TU Ostrava</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Statistika

ISSN

0322-788X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

99

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

129-141

UT code for WoS article

000472577100002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85072669885