Reconciling Performance and Interpretability in Customer Churn Prediction using Ensemble Learning based on Generalized Additive Models
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Database marketing; customer churn prediction; ensemble classification; generalized additive models (GAMs); GAMens; model interpretability;All these keywords.
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