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NEW PROVIDENCE, N.J., April 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Inductis, a Management Consulting and Analytical Services firm headquartered in New Jersey (USA), with its other two offices in New York (USA) and Gurgaon (India) has bagged the first runner's up position at the recently held data mining competition at 10th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2006)

The Inductis team developed a model by combining advanced modeling techniques like SAS, CART and MARS, with a correct classification rate of 89%.

The business problem was to identify customers who are likely to switch to 3G network using existing customer usage and demographic data for an Asian telco operator which has successfully launched a third generation (3G) mobile telecommunications network.

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