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[17] J. Berengueres, “How many unlikes it takes to get fired?” 2017. [Online]. Available: https://www.kaggle.com/harriken/how-many-unlikes-it-takes-to-get-fired
[18] M. A. Hall, “Correlation-based feature subset selection for machine learning,” PhD Thesis, University of Waikato, 1998.
[19] L. Breiman, J. Friedman, R. Olshen, and C. Stone, Classification and Regression Trees. Monterey, CA: Wadsworth and Brooks, 1984.
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[21] J. K. Martin and D. Hirschberg, “On the complexity of learning decision trees,” in International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics. Citeseer, 1996, pp. 112–115.
[22] Y. Freund and L. Mason, “The alternating decision tree learning algorithm,” in ICML, vol. 99, 1999, pp. 124–133.
[23] W.Iba and P.Langley, “Induction of one-level decision trees,” in Machine Learning Proceedings 1992. Elsevier, 1992, pp. 233–240.
[24] T. R. Patil, S. Sherekar et al., “Performance analysis of Naïve Bayes and J48 classification algorithm for data classification,” International Journal of Computer Science and Applications, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 256–261, 2013.
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Xiaojun Ma
Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania
Shengjun Zhai
The University of Chicago, Illinois
Yingxian Fu
emple University, Pennsylvania
Leonard Yoonjae Lee
Seoul International School, Seongnam, Korea
Jingxuan Shen
Dalian Royal School, Dalian, China
Predicting the Occurrence and Causes of Employee Turnover with Machine Learning
Abstract
This paper looks at the problem of employee turnover, which has considerable influence on organizational productivity and healthy working environments. Using a publicly available dataset, key factors capable of predicting employee churn are identified. Six machine learning algorithms including decision trees, random forests, naïve Bayes and multi-layer perceptron are used to predict employees who are prone to churn. A good level of predictive accuracy is observed, and a comparison is made with previous findings. It is found that while the simplest correlation and regression tree (CART) algorithm gives the best accuracy or F1-score, the alternating decision tree (ADT) gives the best area under the ROC curve. Rules extracted in the if-then form enable successful identification of the probable causes of churning.