Causal Analysis of Customer Churn Using Deep Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2304.10604v1
• Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2023 18:56:13 GMT
• Title: Causal Analysis of Customer Churn Using Deep Learning
• Authors: David Hason Rudd, Huan Huo, Guandong Xu
• Abstract summary: Customer churn describes terminating a relationship with a business or reducing customer engagement over a specific period. This paper proposes a framework using a deep feedforward neural network for classification. We also propose a causal Bayesian network to predict cause probabilities that lead to customer churn.
• Score: 9.84528076130809
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Customer churn describes terminating a relationship with a business or reducing customer engagement over a specific period. Two main business marketing strategies play vital roles to increase market share dollar-value: gaining new and preserving existing customers. Customer acquisition cost can be five to six times that for customer retention, hence investing in customers with churn risk is smart. Causal analysis of the churn model can predict whether a customer will churn in the foreseeable future and assist enterprises to identify effects and possible causes for churn and subsequently use that knowledge to apply tailored incentives. This paper proposes a framework using a deep feedforward neural network for classification accompanied by a sequential pattern mining method on high-dimensional sparse data. We also propose a causal Bayesian network to predict cause probabilities that lead to customer churn. Evaluation metrics on test data confirm the XGBoost and our deep learning model outperformed previous techniques. Experimental analysis confirms that some independent causal variables representing the level of super guarantee contribution, account growth, and customer tenure were identified as confounding factors for customer churn with a high degree of belief. This paper provides a real-world customer churn analysis from current status inference to future directions in local superannuation funds.

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