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Néstor Barraza, Moro, S., Marcelo Ferreyra & Adolfo de la Peña (2016). Information Theory based Feature Selection for Customer Classification. JAIIO-Jornadas Argentinas de Informática.
N. R. Barraza et al., "Information Theory based Feature Selection for Customer Classification", in JAIIO-Jornadas Argentinas de Informática, Viamonte, 2016
@misc{barraza2016_1716052176976, author = "Néstor Barraza and Moro, S. and Marcelo Ferreyra and Adolfo de la Peña", title = "Information Theory based Feature Selection for Customer Classification", year = "2016", howpublished = "Other" }
TY - CPAPER TI - Information Theory based Feature Selection for Customer Classification T2 - JAIIO-Jornadas Argentinas de Informática AU - Néstor Barraza AU - Moro, S. AU - Marcelo Ferreyra AU - Adolfo de la Peña PY - 2016 CY - Viamonte AB - The application of Information Theory techniques in customer feature selection is analyzed. This method, usually called information gain has been demonstrated to be simple and fast for feature selection. The important concept of mutual information, originally introduced to analyze and model a noisy channel is used in order to measure relations between characteristics of given customers. An application to a bank customers data set of telemarketing calls for selling bank long-term deposits is shown.We show that with our method, 80% of the subscribers can be reached by contacting just the better half of the classified clients. ER -