Keywords and phrases: churn analysis, ensemble models, economic assessment, temporal AUC.
Received: October 22, 2020; Accepted: November 22, 2020; Published: January 6, 2021
How to cite this article: Federico Bonelli, Silvia Figini and Alessandra Grossi, Ensemble churn risk analytics, Advances and Applications in Statistics 66(1) (2021), 1-11. DOI: 10.17654/AS066010061
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