Predicting Customer Profitability During Acquisition: Finding the Optimal Combination of Data Source and Data Mining Technique
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marketing analytics; predictive analytics; data source; b2b; web mining; web crawling; bagging; profitability; customer acquisition; external commercial data;All these keywords.
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