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Table 1 Some main SNA features with description

From: Customer churn prediction in telecom using machine learning in big data platform

Feature name

Feature description

In-Degree

Number of friends connecting with the customer

Out-Degree

Number of friends the customer connecting with

Max-Cosine-Sim-MTN

Maximum Cosine similarity with other operators’ customers

Max-Cosine-Sim-SyriaTel

Maximum Cosine similarity with SyriaTel customers

Max-Jaccard-SIM-MTN

Maximum Jaccard similarity with other operators’ customers

Max-Jaccard-Sim-SyriaTel

Maximum Jaccard similarity with SyriaTel customers

SR

Weighted Sender Rank in social graph

PR

Weighted Page Rank in social graph

PF “Social Power Factor”

Average of weighted Page Rank and Sender Rank in social graph

Betweenness

# of short paths between any two people in the social network passes through this customer node

LLC “Local Cluster Coefficient”

How much the customer friends know each other

NC “Neighborhood Connectivity”

The number of friends and friends of friends for the customer