Predicting player churn in the wild

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• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games

• Publication date

  2014-10-23

• Fields of study

  Business, Computer Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1109/CIG.2014.6932876
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