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Lam, K, Collins, D, Rigby, C and Bailey, J (2017) Towards Accurate Predictions of Customer Purchasing Patterns. In: IEEE Computer and Information Technology 2017, 21/08/2017-23/08/2017, Helsinki.
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Abstract
range of algorithms was used to classify online retail customers of a UK company using historical transaction data. The predictive capabilities of the classifiers were assessed using linear regression, Lasso and regression trees. Unlike most related studies, classifications were based upon specific and marketing focused customer behaviours. Prediction accuracy on untrained customers was generally better than 80%. The models implemented (and compared) for classification were: Logistic Regression, Quadratic Discriminant Analysis, Linear SVM, RBF SVM, Gaussian Process, Decision Tree, Random Forest and Multi-layer Perceptron (Neural Network). Postcode data was then used to classify solely on demographics derived from the UK Land Registry and similar public data sources. Prediction accuracy remained better than 60%.
Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | classifiers; Regression; segmentation; customer targeting; ecommerce; database marketing; life value cycle; churn ratio |
Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics |
Divisions: | Faculty of Natural Sciences > School of Computing and Mathematics |
Depositing User: | Symplectic |
Date Deposited: | 04 Jul 2017 09:19 |
Last Modified: | 26 Nov 2018 10:33 |
URI: | https://eprints.keele.ac.uk/id/eprint/3630 |