Analyzing customer churn behavior using datamining approach: hybrid support vector machine and logistic regression in retail chain

Customer churn is one of the challenges of business management in today's complex competitive environment. For this purpose, the organization must have an efficient system to detect and analyze the factors influencing customer churn. To conduct this research, an attempt has been made to build a...

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Main Authors: Mohammad Barzegar, Aliakbar Hasani
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Language:English
Published: Ayandegan Institute of Higher Education, 2024-12-01
Series:International Journal of Research in Industrial Engineering
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description Customer churn is one of the challenges of business management in today's complex competitive environment. For this purpose, the organization must have an efficient system to detect and analyze the factors influencing customer churn. To conduct this research, an attempt has been made to build a hybrid model based on data mining approaches from information related to 5830 customers of a chain store (demographic information and information based on customer purchase records) with 17 qualitative and quantitative characteristics. The features of higher importance were identified to build the model in the first stage using the logistic regression algorithm. In the second stage, the support vector machine algorithm, a critical supervised learning algorithm, was used to classify the customers and rank the essential features. Finally, the proposed model has been implemented as a case study in the chain store industry. The results indicate the optimal efficiency of the proposed analysis method. This research has been done to identify the influential factors in customer churn and focus on providing new solutions to reduce churn in the retail industry. Also, the results show that age, marital status, and average monthly income from the set of demographic features and how to get to know the store, the share of online shopping, and special sales from the set of features related to customer transaction records are among the most important factors affecting customer churn. In addition, practical suggestions have been presented that can be used for tactical and strategic planning of chain stores to attract and retain customers.
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spelling doaj-art-26359535c2b64177938ec17a0f159a552025-01-30T15:10:43ZengAyandegan Institute of Higher Education,International Journal of Research in Industrial Engineering2783-13372717-29372024-12-0113438439810.22105/riej.2024.427655.1404198295Analyzing customer churn behavior using datamining approach: hybrid support vector machine and logistic regression in retail chainMohammad Barzegar0Aliakbar Hasani1Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Shahrood University of Technology, Iran.Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Shahrood University of Technology, Iran.Customer churn is one of the challenges of business management in today's complex competitive environment. For this purpose, the organization must have an efficient system to detect and analyze the factors influencing customer churn. To conduct this research, an attempt has been made to build a hybrid model based on data mining approaches from information related to 5830 customers of a chain store (demographic information and information based on customer purchase records) with 17 qualitative and quantitative characteristics. The features of higher importance were identified to build the model in the first stage using the logistic regression algorithm. In the second stage, the support vector machine algorithm, a critical supervised learning algorithm, was used to classify the customers and rank the essential features. Finally, the proposed model has been implemented as a case study in the chain store industry. The results indicate the optimal efficiency of the proposed analysis method. This research has been done to identify the influential factors in customer churn and focus on providing new solutions to reduce churn in the retail industry. Also, the results show that age, marital status, and average monthly income from the set of demographic features and how to get to know the store, the share of online shopping, and special sales from the set of features related to customer transaction records are among the most important factors affecting customer churn. In addition, practical suggestions have been presented that can be used for tactical and strategic planning of chain stores to attract and retain customers.https://www.riejournal.com/article_198295_8a2e5d3d33fcc25794e445c8ae6c1737.pdfcustomer churndata mininglogistic regressionsupport vector machinemachine learning
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Analyzing customer churn behavior using datamining approach: hybrid support vector machine and logistic regression in retail chain
International Journal of Research in Industrial Engineering
customer churn
data mining
logistic regression
support vector machine
machine learning
title Analyzing customer churn behavior using datamining approach: hybrid support vector machine and logistic regression in retail chain
title_full Analyzing customer churn behavior using datamining approach: hybrid support vector machine and logistic regression in retail chain
title_fullStr Analyzing customer churn behavior using datamining approach: hybrid support vector machine and logistic regression in retail chain
title_full_unstemmed Analyzing customer churn behavior using datamining approach: hybrid support vector machine and logistic regression in retail chain
title_short Analyzing customer churn behavior using datamining approach: hybrid support vector machine and logistic regression in retail chain
title_sort analyzing customer churn behavior using datamining approach hybrid support vector machine and logistic regression in retail chain
topic customer churn
data mining
logistic regression
support vector machine
machine learning
url https://www.riejournal.com/article_198295_8a2e5d3d33fcc25794e445c8ae6c1737.pdf
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