東華大學圖書館 |

Language: English

Help

回圖書館首頁

手機版館藏查詢

Back

Switch To: Labeled | MARC Mode | ISBD

Customer Segmentation Using Cluster ...

Wallin, Josie.

Linked to FindBook

Google Book

Amazon

博客來

Customer Segmentation Using Cluster Analysis on Student Loan Applications.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Customer Segmentation Using Cluster Analysis on Student Loan Applications./
Author:	Wallin, Josie.
Description:	55 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 49-02, page: 1210.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International49-02.
Subject:	Education, Finance. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=1486963
ISBN:	9781124305189

Customer Segmentation Using Cluster Analysis on Student Loan Applications.
Wallin, Josie.

Customer Segmentation Using Cluster Analysis on Student Loan Applications. - 55 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 49-02, page: 1210.

Thesis (M.S.)--South Dakota State University, 2010.

A business must know who its customers are in order to meet its goals and operate efficiently. The products and services available from a business, along with marketing strategy, should reflect a business' current or goal customers in order to maximize profits and efficiency. This problem can be solved with a data mining technique called cluster analysis. Cluster analysis is a knowledge discovery tool capable of summarizing hundreds of thousands of observations on several variables by finding groups within data. The main objective of this thesis was to determine how many different types of customers applied for student loans at a particular student loan company. The original dataset consisted of more than 470,000 student-loan applications received by the company between April 2008 and March 2009. Different clustering methods were employed in order to answer these questions, including hierarchical agglomerative and k-means clustering.

ISBN: 9781124305189Subjects--Topical Terms:

1020300
Education, Finance.

Customer Segmentation Using Cluster Analysis on Student Loan Applications.
LDR:03207nam 2200313 4500 001 1402566
005 20111102140038.5
008 130515s2010 ||||||||||||||||| ||eng d
020 $a 9781124305189
035 $a (UMI)AAI1486963
035 $a AAI1486963
040 $a UMI $c UMI
100 1 $a Wallin, Josie. $3 1681763
245 1 0 $a Customer Segmentation Using Cluster Analysis on Student Loan Applications.
300 $a 55 p.
500 $a Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 49-02, page: 1210.
500 $a Advisers: Xijin Ge; Kurt Cogswell.
502 $a Thesis (M.S.)--South Dakota State University, 2010.
520 $a A business must know who its customers are in order to meet its goals and operate efficiently. The products and services available from a business, along with marketing strategy, should reflect a business' current or goal customers in order to maximize profits and efficiency. This problem can be solved with a data mining technique called cluster analysis. Cluster analysis is a knowledge discovery tool capable of summarizing hundreds of thousands of observations on several variables by finding groups within data. The main objective of this thesis was to determine how many different types of customers applied for student loans at a particular student loan company. The original dataset consisted of more than 470,000 student-loan applications received by the company between April 2008 and March 2009. Different clustering methods were employed in order to answer these questions, including hierarchical agglomerative and k-means clustering.
520 $a The range of possible cluster solutions was found to be two to six, and each of these solutions was run using k-means clustering on the entire original dataset. After comparing the results, the most appropriate solution was found to be three clusters. The three cluster solution was validated using several different methods which included running the three cluster solution using k-means clustering on random samples of the original data and also on one year prior's data (April '07 to March '08 student applicants) and the most recent year's data (April '09 to March '10). After each method, the results were analyzed to determine if three clusters similar to the original solution were found. The researcher found that the 3 clusters, representing three typical types of student loan applicants, were consistently detected and validated in different years' data as well as different subsets of the original data. The analysis also showed some evidence of a new type of customer emerging from the most recent year's data which might possibly be explained by the Great Recession of 2008 and 2009. In general, it was found that cluster analysis can successfully be used to detect customer segments of student loan applicants, which could be potentially useful for targeted marketing or corporate decision making.
590 $a School code: 0205.
650 4 $a Education, Finance. $3 1020300
650 4 $a Statistics. $3 517247
650 4 $a Business Administration, Banking. $3 1018458
690 $a 0277
690 $a 0463
690 $a 0770
710 2 $a South Dakota State University. $3 1019395
773 0 $t Masters Abstracts International $g 49-02.
790 1 0 $a Ge, Xijin, $e advisor
790 1 0 $a Cogswell, Kurt, $e advisor
790 $a 0205
791 $a M.S.
792 $a 2010
856 4 0 $u http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=1486963