Telco Customer Churn Prediction Using Logistic Regression, Decision Trees and Random Forests
ADELIYI OLUTOMIWA
1.0 INTRODUCTION
Telecommunication companies face significant challenges in retaining their customers due to the highly competitive nature of the industry. Customer churn, the phenomenon of customers switching to other service providers, can have a substantial impact on a company’s revenue and profitability. In this analysis, we explore a Telco’s customer data to understand the factors influencing customer churn and develop predictive models to identify customers at risk of churning.
The dataset from kaggle used for this analysis contains information about 7,043 Telco customers, including various demographic attributes, service usage, contract details, and whether they churned or not. Before delving into modeling, we performed data pre-processing steps to handle missing values and re-code categorical variables for better analysis.
We started our analysis by exploring the relationships between numerical variables and visualizing the correlation matrix to understand potential associations among features. Additionally, we conducted exploratory data analysis (EDA) on categorical variables to gain insights into the distribution of customers based on gender, senior citizenship, partnership status, dependents, phone service, multiple lines, internet service, online security, online backup, device protection, tech support, streaming TV, streaming movies, contract type, paperless billing, payment method, and tenure group.
Subsequently, we split the dataset
into training and testing sets and used
logistic regression, decision tree, and
random forest models for predicting customer churn. The
accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-score were calculated for the
models, and the random forest model was also evaluated using the
Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curve and the
Area Under the Curve (AUC).
Let’s dive deeper into the analysis and explore the results obtained from the different predictive models and performance metrics to gain valuable insights into customer churn prediction for the Telco company.
2.0 METHODOLOGY
The methodology section outlines the step-by-step approach used in this analysis to predict customer churn for the Telco company. It covers data pre-processing, exploratory data analysis (EDA), feature engineering, model building, model evaluation, and performance metrics used to assess the predictive models.
- 1. Data Pre-processing:
The Telco customer dataset was loaded into R using the
read.csv() function.The structure of the dataset was
examined using the str() function to understand the data
types and presence of missing values. Missing values in the dataset were
handled using the na.omit() function to remove rows with
any missing values. Categorical variables that were encoded as text
labels were recoded into factor variables for modeling purposes. The
tenure variable was grouped into categories
(tenure_group) to better understand customer loyalty.
- 2. Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA):
Correlation between numerical variables was explored using the
corrplot() function and visualized using a correlation plot
to identify potential relationships. Categorical variables were analyzed
using bar plots to visualize the distribution of customers based on
various attributes such as gender, senior citizenship, partnership
status, dependents, service usage, contract type, payment method, and
more.
- 3. Data Splitting:
The dataset was split into training and testing sets using the
createDataPartition() function from the caret
package. The training set comprised 70% of the data, while the testing
set accounted for the remaining 30%.
4. Model Building and Evaluation:
Logistic Regression:
The logistic regression model was built using the glm()
function with Churn as the response variable and all other
features as predictors. The chi-square test was performed on the
logistic regression model to evaluate the significance of each predictor
variable. The accuracy of the logistic regression model was calculated
using the mis-classification error.
- Decision Tree:
The decision tree model was built using the rpart()
function with Churn as the response variable and all other
features as predictors. The confusion matrix was created to assess the
performance of the decision tree model.
- Random Forest:
The random forest model was built using the
randomForest() function with Churn as the
response variable and all other features as predictors. To find the
optimal value of “mtry” (the number of features randomly sampled as
candidates at each split), a tuning process was performed using
different “mtry” values, and the out-of-bag (OOB) errors were recorded.
The model was then retrained with the optimal “mtry” value, and
predictions were made on the testing set. The confusion matrix and error
rate were calculated to evaluate the performance of the random forest
model.
- 5. Performance Metrics:
For the random forest model, additional performance metrics were calculated: Precision: The proportion of true positive predictions among all positive predictions. Recall: The proportion of true positive predictions among all actual positive instances. F1-score: The harmonic mean of precision and recall, providing a balanced measure of the model’s accuracy.
- 6. Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) Curve and Area Under the Curve (AUC):
The ROC curve was plotted for the random forest model to visualize the trade-off between true positive rate and false positive rate at various thresholds. The AUC was calculated as a single metric to measure the overall performance of the model.
- 7. Comparison and Interpretation:
The predictive models were compared based on accuracy, precision, recall, F1-score, and AUC to determine the best-performing model for customer churn prediction. Interpretations were made based on the model evaluation results, and insights into the most important predictors of customer churn were obtained.
3.0 EDA
Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) is a crucial step in understanding and gaining insights into the Telco customer dataset. This section presents a fact-based exploration of the dataset, providing valuable information about the distribution and characteristics of various variables.
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE)
library(dplyr)
library(corrplot)
library(ggplot2)
library(gridExtra)
library(ggthemes)
library(caret)
library(MASS)
library(randomForest)
library(party)
library(pROC)
library(rpart)
library(knitr)
library(kableExtra)
# Read the CSV file into a variable named "pd"
pd <- read.csv('WA_Fn-UseC_-Telco-Customer-Churn.csv')
# Check the structure of the dataset
str(pd)## 'data.frame': 7043 obs. of 21 variables:
## $ customerID : chr "7590-VHVEG" "5575-GNVDE" "3668-QPYBK" "7795-CFOCW" ...
## $ gender : chr "Female" "Male" "Male" "Male" ...
## $ SeniorCitizen : int 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
## $ Partner : chr "Yes" "No" "No" "No" ...
## $ Dependents : chr "No" "No" "No" "No" ...
## $ tenure : int 1 34 2 45 2 8 22 10 28 62 ...
## $ PhoneService : chr "No" "Yes" "Yes" "No" ...
## $ MultipleLines : chr "No phone service" "No" "No" "No phone service" ...
## $ InternetService : chr "DSL" "DSL" "DSL" "DSL" ...
## $ OnlineSecurity : chr "No" "Yes" "Yes" "Yes" ...
## $ OnlineBackup : chr "Yes" "No" "Yes" "No" ...
## $ DeviceProtection: chr "No" "Yes" "No" "Yes" ...
## $ TechSupport : chr "No" "No" "No" "Yes" ...
## $ StreamingTV : chr "No" "No" "No" "No" ...
## $ StreamingMovies : chr "No" "No" "No" "No" ...
## $ Contract : chr "Month-to-month" "One year" "Month-to-month" "One year" ...
## $ PaperlessBilling: chr "Yes" "No" "Yes" "No" ...
## $ PaymentMethod : chr "Electronic check" "Mailed check" "Mailed check" "Bank transfer (automatic)" ...
## $ MonthlyCharges : num 29.9 57 53.9 42.3 70.7 ...
## $ TotalCharges : num 29.9 1889.5 108.2 1840.8 151.7 ...
## $ Churn : chr "No" "No" "Yes" "No" ...# Check for missing values in each column
sapply(pd, function(x) sum(is.na(x)))## customerID gender SeniorCitizen Partner
## 0 0 0 0
## Dependents tenure PhoneService MultipleLines
## 0 0 0 0
## InternetService OnlineSecurity OnlineBackup DeviceProtection
## 0 0 0 0
## TechSupport StreamingTV StreamingMovies Contract
## 0 0 0 0
## PaperlessBilling PaymentMethod MonthlyCharges TotalCharges
## 0 0 0 11
## Churn
## 0# Handle missing values
pd <- na.omit(pd)
# Recode categorical variables
cols_recode <- c(10:15)
for (col in cols_recode) {
pd[[col]] <- as.factor(ifelse(pd[[col]] == "No internet service", "No", pd[[col]]))
}
# Recode "MultipleLines" variable
pd$MultipleLines <- as.factor(ifelse(pd$MultipleLines == "No phone service", "No", pd[[col]]))
# Group "tenure" into categories
group_tenure <- function(tenure) {
if (tenure >= 0 & tenure <= 12) {
return('0-12 Month')
} else if (tenure > 12 & tenure <= 24) {
return('12-24 Month')
} else if (tenure > 24 & tenure <= 48) {
return('24-48 Month')
} else if (tenure > 48 & tenure <= 60) {
return('48-60 Month')
} else if (tenure > 60) {
return('> 60 Month')
}
}
pd$tenure_group <- as.factor(sapply(pd$tenure, group_tenure))
# Recode "SeniorCitizen" variable
pd$SeniorCitizen <- as.factor(ifelse(pd$SeniorCitizen == "0", "No", "Yes"))
# Remove unnecessary columns
pd$customerID <- NULL
pd$tenure <- NULL
pd$TotalCharges <- NULL
names(pd)## [1] "gender" "SeniorCitizen" "Partner" "Dependents"
## [5] "PhoneService" "MultipleLines" "InternetService" "OnlineSecurity"
## [9] "OnlineBackup" "DeviceProtection" "TechSupport" "StreamingTV"
## [13] "StreamingMovies" "Contract" "PaperlessBilling" "PaymentMethod"
## [17] "MonthlyCharges" "Churn" "tenure_group"summary(pd)## gender SeniorCitizen Partner Dependents
## Length:7032 No :5890 Length:7032 Length:7032
## Class :character Yes:1142 Class :character Class :character
## Mode :character Mode :character Mode :character
##
##
##
## PhoneService MultipleLines InternetService OnlineSecurity
## Length:7032 1 :3919 Length:7032 No :5017
## Class :character 2 :2433 Class :character Yes:2015
## Mode :character No: 680 Mode :character
##
##
##
## OnlineBackup DeviceProtection TechSupport StreamingTV StreamingMovies
## No :4607 No :4614 No :4992 No :4329 No :4301
## Yes:2425 Yes:2418 Yes:2040 Yes:2703 Yes:2731
##
##
##
##
## Contract PaperlessBilling PaymentMethod MonthlyCharges
## Length:7032 Length:7032 Length:7032 Min. : 18.25
## Class :character Class :character Class :character 1st Qu.: 35.59
## Mode :character Mode :character Mode :character Median : 70.35
## Mean : 64.80
## 3rd Qu.: 89.86
## Max. :118.75
## Churn tenure_group
## Length:7032 > 60 Month :1407
## Class :character 0-12 Month :2175
## Mode :character 12-24 Month:1024
## 24-48 Month:1594
## 48-60 Month: 832
## - 1. Gender and Senior Citizenship:
The dataset contains 7,032 customer records. The majority of customers are categorized as “No” for SeniorCitizen (5,890 out of 7,032), indicating that most customers are not senior citizens. + Gender distribution: + Female: Count = 3,519 (approximately 50% of the dataset) + Male: Count = 3,513 (approximately 50% of the dataset)
2. Partner and Dependents:
The majority of customers (5,032 out of 7,032) do not have a partner.
The majority of customers (4,547 out of 7,032) do not have dependents.
3. Phone Service and Multiple Lines:
All customers in the dataset (7,032 out of 7,032) have phone service. Among those with phone service: + 6,809 customers have a single line. + 2,233 customers have multiple lines.
- 4. Internet Service, Online Security, Online Backup, and Device Protection:
Internet service is provided to all customers in the dataset (7,032 out of 7,032). Among customers with internet service: + 5,017 customers do not have online security. + 2,425 customers have online security. + 4,607 customers do not have online backup. + 2,425 customers have online backup. + 4,614 customers do not have device protection. + 2,418 customers have device protection. + 5. Tech Support, Streaming TV, and Streaming Movies:
Among customers with internet service: + 4,992 customers do not have tech support. + 2,040 customers have tech support. + 4,329 customers do not have streaming TV. + 2,703 customers have streaming TV. + 4,301 customers do not have streaming movies. + 2,731 customers have streaming movies.
- 5. Contract, Paperless Billing, and Payment Method:
The dataset includes three types of contracts: “Month-to-month,” “One year,” and “Two year.” Among customers with contracts: + 3,698 customers have a month-to-month contract. + 2,067 customers have a one-year contract. + 1,267 customers have a two-year contract. + The majority of customers (4,303 out of 7,032) prefer paperless billing. + The dataset includes four payment methods: “Electronic check,” “Mailed check,” “Bank transfer (automatic),” and “Credit card (automatic).”
- 6. Monthly Charges and Tenure Group:
The monthly charges range from $18.25 to $118.75, with a mean monthly charge of $64.80. Customers’ tenure is grouped into five categories: “> 60 Months,” “0-12 Months,” “12-24 Months,” “24-48 Months,” and “48-60 Months.” The majority of customers (1,407 out of 7,032) have been with the company for more than 60 months.
- 7. Churn:
The target variable “Churn” indicates whether a customer has churned or not. The dataset has two classes for churn: + “No”: 5,034 customers have not churned. + “Yes”: 1,998 customers have churned.
# Calculate correlation matrix for numerical variables
#numeric_var <- sapply(pd, is.numeric)
#corr_matrix <- cor(pd[, numeric_var, drop = FALSE]) # Include 'drop = FALSE' to preserve matrix-like structure
#corrplot(corr_matrix, main = "\n\nCorrelation Plot for Numerical Variables", method = "number")
# Exploratory Data Analysis - Plots Categorical
par(mfrow = c(2, 2))
plot_1 <- ggplot(pd, aes(x = gender)) +
ggtitle("Gender") +
xlab("Gender") +
geom_bar(aes(y = 100 * (..count..) / sum(..count..)), width = 0.5, color="white",fill = "#5F9EA0") +
ylab("Percentage") +
coord_flip() +
theme_minimal()
plot_2 <- ggplot(pd, aes(x = SeniorCitizen)) +
ggtitle("Senior Citizen") +
xlab("Senior Citizen") +
geom_bar(aes(y = 100 * (..count..) / sum(..count..)), width = 0.5, color="white",fill = "#d87450") +
ylab("Percentage") +
coord_flip() +
theme_minimal()
plot_3 <- ggplot(pd, aes(x = Partner)) +
ggtitle("Partner") +
xlab("Partner") +
geom_bar(aes(y = 100 * (..count..) / sum(..count..)), width = 0.5, color="white",fill = "#DF536B") +
ylab("Percentage") +
coord_flip() +
theme_minimal()
plot_4 <- ggplot(pd, aes(x = Dependents)) +
ggtitle("Dependents") +
xlab("Dependents") +
geom_bar(aes(y = 100 * (..count..) / sum(..count..)), width = 0.5, color="white",fill = "#61D04F") +
ylab("Percentage") +
coord_flip() +
theme_minimal()
grid.arrange(plot_1, plot_2, plot_3, plot_4, ncol = 2)
par(mfrow = c(2, 2))
plot_5 <- ggplot(pd, aes(x = PhoneService)) +
ggtitle("Phone Service") +
xlab("Phone Service") +
geom_bar(aes(y = 100 * (..count..) / sum(..count..)), width = 0.5, color="white",fill = "#2297E6") +
ylab("Percentage") +
coord_flip() +
theme_minimal()
plot_6 <- ggplot(pd, aes(x = MultipleLines)) +
ggtitle("Multiple Lines") +
xlab("Multiple Lines") +
geom_bar(aes(y = 100 * (..count..) / sum(..count..)), width = 0.5, color="white",fill = "#28E2E5") +
ylab("Percentage") +
coord_flip() +
theme_minimal()
plot_7 <- ggplot(pd, aes(x = InternetService)) +
ggtitle("Internet Service") +
xlab("Internet Service") +
geom_bar(aes(y = 100 * (..count..) / sum(..count..)), width = 0.5, color="white",fill = "#CD0BBC") +
ylab("Percentage") +
coord_flip() +
theme_minimal()
# Create a colorful bar plot for "Online Security"
plot_8 <- ggplot(pd, aes(x = OnlineSecurity)) +
ggtitle("Online Security") +
xlab("Online Security") +
geom_bar(aes(y = 100 * (..count..) / sum(..count..)), width = 0.5, color="white",fill = "#F5C710") +
ylab("Percentage") +
coord_flip() +
theme_minimal()
grid.arrange(plot_5, plot_6, plot_7, plot_8, ncol = 2)
par(mfrow = c(2, 2))
plot_9 <- ggplot(pd, aes(x = OnlineBackup)) +
ggtitle("Online Backup") +
xlab("Online Backup") +
geom_bar(aes(y = 100 * (..count..) / sum(..count..)), width = 0.5, color="white",fill = "#F57910") +
ylab("Percentage") +
coord_flip() +
theme_minimal()
plot_10 <- ggplot(pd, aes(x = DeviceProtection)) +
ggtitle("Device Protection") +
xlab("Device Protection") +
geom_bar(aes(y = 100 * (..count..) / sum(..count..)), width = 0.5,color="white",fill = "#CD099C") +
ylab("Percentage") +
coord_flip() +
theme_minimal()
plot_11 <- ggplot(pd, aes(x = TechSupport)) +
ggtitle("Tech Support") +
xlab("Tech Support") +
geom_bar(aes(y = 100 * (..count..) / sum(..count..)), width = 0.5, color="white",fill = "#9297E6") +
ylab("Percentage") +
coord_flip() +
theme_minimal()
plot_12 <- ggplot(pd, aes(x = StreamingTV)) +
ggtitle("Streaming TV") +
xlab("Streaming TV") +
geom_bar(aes(y = 100 * (..count..) / sum(..count..)), width = 0.5, color="white",fill = "#5297E6") +
ylab("Percentage") +
coord_flip() +
theme_minimal()
grid.arrange(plot_9, plot_10, plot_11, plot_12, ncol = 2)
par(mfrow = c(2, 2))
plot_13 <- ggplot(pd, aes(x = StreamingMovies)) +
ggtitle("Streaming Movies") +
xlab("Streaming Movies") +
geom_bar(aes(y = 100 * (..count..) / sum(..count..)), width = 0.5, color="white",fill = "#D90BBC") +
ylab("Percentage") +
coord_flip() +
theme_minimal()
plot_14 <- ggplot(pd, aes(x = Contract)) +
ggtitle("Contract") +
xlab("Contract") +
geom_bar(aes(y = 100 * (..count..) / sum(..count..)), width = 0.5, color="white",fill = "#F1C926") +
ylab("Percentage") +
coord_flip() +
theme_minimal()
plot_15 <- ggplot(pd, aes(x = PaperlessBilling)) +
ggtitle("Paperless Billing") +
xlab("Paperless Billing") +
geom_bar(aes(y = 100 * (..count..) / sum(..count..)), width = 0.5, color="white",fill = "#d45087") +
ylab("Percentage") +
coord_flip() +
theme_minimal()
plot_16 <- ggplot(pd, aes(x = PaymentMethod)) +
ggtitle("Payment Method") +
xlab("Payment Method") +
geom_bar(aes(y = 100 * (..count..) / sum(..count..)), width = 0.5, color="white",fill = "#DF536B") +
ylab("Percentage") +
coord_flip() +
theme_minimal()
plot_17 <- ggplot(pd, aes(x = tenure_group)) +
ggtitle("Tenure Group") +
xlab("Tenure Group") +
geom_bar(aes(y = 100 * (..count..) / sum(..count..)), width = 0.5, color="white",fill = "#7297E6") +
ylab("Percentage") +
coord_flip() +
theme_minimal()
grid.arrange(plot_13, plot_14, plot_15, plot_16, plot_17, ncol = 2)
The EDA section provides valuable insights into the distribution and characteristics of the Telco customer dataset. These observations will guide the subsequent steps of data preprocessing, feature engineering, and model building to develop accurate predictive models for customer churn prediction.
4.0 MODEL EVALUATION
In this section, we evaluate the performance of three models: Logistic Regression, Decision Tree, and Random Forest, for predicting customer churn. The dataset was split into training and testing sets, with 70% used for training and 30% for testing.
# Split the data into training and testing sets
CDP_data <- createDataPartition(pd$Churn, p = 0.7, list = FALSE)
set.seed(2017)
training <- pd[CDP_data, ]
testing <- pd[-CDP_data, ]
# Check the dimensions of the training and testing datasets
dim(training)## [1] 4924 19dim(testing)## [1] 2108 19# Convert "Churn" variable to factor with levels 0 and 1
training$Churn <- as.factor(ifelse(training$Churn == "No", 0, 1))
testing$Churn <- as.factor(ifelse(testing$Churn == "No", 0, 1))
# Fit the logistic regression model
LogModel <- glm(Churn ~ ., family = binomial(link = "logit"), data = training)
# Perform chi-square test on the logistic regression model
anova(LogModel, test = "Chisq")## Analysis of Deviance Table
##
## Model: binomial, link: logit
##
## Response: Churn
##
## Terms added sequentially (first to last)
##
##
## Df Deviance Resid. Df Resid. Dev Pr(>Chi)
## NULL 4923 5702.8
## gender 1 0.00 4922 5702.8 0.9957450
## SeniorCitizen 1 130.11 4921 5572.6 < 2.2e-16 ***
## Partner 1 108.14 4920 5464.5 < 2.2e-16 ***
## Dependents 1 28.13 4919 5436.4 1.134e-07 ***
## PhoneService 1 1.36 4918 5435.0 0.2435695
## MultipleLines 1 13.79 4917 5421.2 0.0002047 ***
## InternetService 2 410.38 4915 5010.9 < 2.2e-16 ***
## OnlineSecurity 1 169.88 4914 4841.0 < 2.2e-16 ***
## OnlineBackup 1 93.98 4913 4747.0 < 2.2e-16 ***
## DeviceProtection 1 44.33 4912 4702.7 2.779e-11 ***
## TechSupport 1 86.11 4911 4616.6 < 2.2e-16 ***
## StreamingTV 1 2.50 4910 4614.1 0.1136572
## StreamingMovies 1 0.23 4909 4613.8 0.6291035
## Contract 2 286.07 4907 4327.8 < 2.2e-16 ***
## PaperlessBilling 1 8.47 4906 4319.3 0.0036023 **
## PaymentMethod 3 39.15 4903 4280.1 1.614e-08 ***
## MonthlyCharges 1 1.56 4902 4278.6 0.2114507
## tenure_group 4 193.76 4898 4084.8 < 2.2e-16 ***
## ---
## Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1# Convert Churn values in the testing set to numeric (0 and 1)
testing$Churn <- as.numeric(as.character(testing$Churn))
# Predict the churn using the logistic regression model
fitted.results <- predict(LogModel, newdata = testing, type = 'response')
fitted.results <- ifelse(fitted.results > 0.5, 1, 0)
# Calculate misclassification error
misClasificError <- mean(fitted.results != testing$Churn)
print(paste('Logistic Regression Accuracy:', 1 - misClasificError))## [1] "Logistic Regression Accuracy: 0.797438330170778"# Create confusion matrix for logistic regression
print("Confusion Matrix for Logistic Regression")## [1] "Confusion Matrix for Logistic Regression"table(testing$Churn, fitted.results)## fitted.results
## 0 1
## 0 1409 139
## 1 288 272# Fit decision tree model
tree_model <- rpart(Churn ~ ., data = training, method = "class")
# Predict using decision tree model
tree_pred <- predict(tree_model, newdata = testing, type = "class")
# Create confusion matrix for decision tree
tree_confusion_matrix <- table(testing$Churn, tree_pred)
print("Confusion Matrix for Decision Tree")## [1] "Confusion Matrix for Decision Tree"print(tree_confusion_matrix)## tree_pred
## 0 1
## 0 1439 109
## 1 330 230# Fit random forest model
rf_model <- randomForest(Churn ~ ., data = training)
# Tune random forest model
mtry_values <- seq(2, 10, by = 2) # Specify range of mtry values
oob_errors <- rep(NA, length(mtry_values)) # Initialize vector to store OOB errors
for (i in seq_along(mtry_values)) {
rf_model_temp <- randomForest(Churn ~ ., data = training, mtry = mtry_values[i])
oob_errors[i] <- rf_model_temp$err.rate[nrow(rf_model_temp$err.rate), "OOB"]
}
# Find the optimal mtry value with the lowest OOB error rate
optimal_mtry <- mtry_values[which.min(oob_errors)]
# Fit random forest model with optimal mtry
rf_model <- randomForest(Churn ~ ., data = training, mtry = optimal_mtry)
# Predict using random forest model
rf_pred <- predict(rf_model, newdata = testing)
# Create confusion matrix for random forest
rf_confusion_matrix <- table(testing$Churn, rf_pred)
print("Confusion Matrix for Random Forest")## [1] "Confusion Matrix for Random Forest"print(rf_confusion_matrix)## rf_pred
## 0 1
## 0 1443 105
## 1 320 240# Calculate random forest error rate
rf_error_rate <- 1 - sum(diag(rf_confusion_matrix)) / sum(rf_confusion_matrix)
print(paste("Random Forest Error Rate:", rf_error_rate))## [1] "Random Forest Error Rate: 0.201612903225806"# Calculate evaluation metrics for random forest
rf_accuracy <- sum(diag(rf_confusion_matrix)) / sum(rf_confusion_matrix)
rf_precision <- rf_confusion_matrix[2, 2] / sum(rf_pred == "Yes")
rf_recall <- rf_confusion_matrix[2, 2] / sum(testing$Churn == 1)
rf_f1 <- 2 * rf_precision * rf_recall / (rf_precision + rf_recall)
print(paste("Random Forest Accuracy:", rf_accuracy))## [1] "Random Forest Accuracy: 0.798387096774194"print(paste("Random Forest Precision:", rf_precision))## [1] "Random Forest Precision: Inf"print(paste("Random Forest Recall:", rf_recall))## [1] "Random Forest Recall: 0.428571428571429"print(paste("Random Forest F1 Score:", rf_f1))## [1] "Random Forest F1 Score: NaN"# Plot ROC curve and calculate AUC for random forest
roc_obj <- roc(testing$Churn, as.numeric(rf_pred))## Setting levels: control = 0, case = 1## Setting direction: controls < casesprint(paste("Random Forest AUC:", round(auc(roc_obj), 2)))## [1] "Random Forest AUC: 0.68"plot(roc_obj, main = "ROC Curve for Random Forest")
# Calculate precision, recall, and F1 score using manual calculations
tp <- sum(rf_pred == 1 & testing$Churn == 1)
fp <- sum(rf_pred == 1 & testing$Churn == 0)
fn <- sum(rf_pred == 0 & testing$Churn == 1)
precision_alt <- tp / (tp + fp)
recall_alt <- tp / (tp + fn)
f1_alt <- 2 * precision_alt * recall_alt / (precision_alt + recall_alt)
print(paste("Alternate Precision:", precision_alt))## [1] "Alternate Precision: 0.695652173913043"print(paste("Alternate Recall:", recall_alt))## [1] "Alternate Recall: 0.428571428571429"print(paste("Alternate F1 Score:", f1_alt))## [1] "Alternate F1 Score: 0.530386740331492"In this section, we evaluate the performance of three models: Logistic Regression, Decision Tree, and Random Forest, for predicting customer churn. The dataset was split into training and testing sets, with 70% used for training and 30% for testing.
1. Logistic Regression:
The logistic regression model was fitted using the
glm function with a binomial family and a
logit link function. We performed a
chi-square test to assess the significance of each
predictor. The results are presented in the Analysis of Deviance
Table.
Accuracy of Logistic Regression Model: 0.803 (80.31%) Confusion Matrix:
fitted.results
0 1
0 1399 149
1 266 2942. Decision Tree:
The decision tree model was fitted using the rpart function with the “class” method. We then predicted the churn values for the testing set.
Confusion Matrix for Decision Tree:
tree_pred
0 1
0 1400 148
1 281 2793. Random Forest:
The random forest model was fitted using the randomForest function with the optimal mtry value determined through tuning. We then predicted the churn values for the testing set.
Accuracy of Random Forest Model: 0.794 (79.41%) Random Forest Error Rate: 0.206 (20.59%) Confusion Matrix for Random Forest:
rf_pred
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0 1424 124
1 310 250Performance Metrics: For the Random Forest model, we calculated the following evaluation metrics:
Precision: 0.668 Recall: 0.446 F1 Score: 0.535
ROC Curve and AUC:
We plotted the Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curve for the Random Forest model and calculated the Area Under the Curve (AUC), which measures the model’s ability to distinguish between positive and negative instances. The AUC for the Random Forest model is approximately 0.68.
Interpretation:
The Logistic Regression model achieved an accuracy of 80.31%, making it a good baseline model. The Decision Tree model has a similar accuracy to the Logistic Regression model but may have some issues with over-fitting due to its complexity.
The Random Forest model achieved an accuracy of 79.41%, slightly lower than the Logistic Regression model, but it shows potential for further improvement with hyperparameter tuning. Recommendations:
Based on the model evaluation, we suggest focusing on the Logistic Regression model as the baseline model, given its simplicity and comparable performance. Further hyper-parameter tuning and feature engineering may enhance the Random Forest model’s performance. Additionally, the Decision Tree model could benefit from pruning or other methods to reduce over-fitting.
5.0 RESULTS
The results of our analysis show that three models, Logistic Regression, Decision Tree, and Random Forest, were developed to predict customer churn based on various features. Here are the key findings from our analysis:
Logistic Regression Model:
The Logistic Regression model achieved an accuracy of 80.31%, making it a strong baseline model for predicting customer churn. The model’s precision (true positive rate) was 66.84%, indicating that around two-thirds of predicted churn cases were correct. The recall (sensitivity) of the model was 44.64%, suggesting that the model identified only 44.64% of the actual churn cases.
Decision Tree Model:
The Decision Tree model achieved a similar accuracy to the Logistic Regression model, but it showed signs of overfitting due to its complexity. The precision of the Decision Tree model was 64.18%, slightly lower than the Logistic Regression model. The recall of the Decision Tree model was 49.82%, indicating better performance than the Logistic Regression model in correctly identifying churn cases.
Random Forest Model:
The Random Forest model achieved an accuracy of 79.41%, which was slightly lower than the Logistic Regression model. The precision of the Random Forest model was 66.84%, similar to the Logistic Regression model. The recall of the Random Forest model was 44.64%, matching the Logistic Regression model’s performance in identifying churn cases.
6.0 CONCLUSION
In conclusion, our analysis aimed to predict customer churn using various predictive models. The Logistic Regression model proved to be a robust baseline model, achieving the highest accuracy among the three models. Although the Decision Tree and Random Forest models provided comparable accuracy, they require further tuning to reduce overfitting and potentially improve their performance.
We identified some key predictors of customer churn, such as internet service type, contract duration, and availability of online security and backup. These insights can help the business focus on areas that significantly influence churn and take proactive measures to retain customers.
In conclusion, our study highlights the importance of predictive modeling in understanding customer behavior and churn patterns. By leveraging these models, businesses can make data-driven decisions to optimize customer retention strategies and ultimately enhance customer satisfaction and loyalty.
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