Bookbinders Book Club (predictive)
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The Bookbinders Book Club (BBC) was established in 1986 for the purpose of selling books through direct marketing. BBC built and maintains a detailed database of its members and is developing a program to improve the efficacy of its direct mail program. Under consideration are three modeling approaches to isolate the factors that most influence customers using data collected from a recent mailing.
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