Analysis of call centre arrival data using singular value decomposition

Haipeng Shen and Jianhua Z. Huang

Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, 2005, vol. 21, issue 3, 251-263

Abstract: We consider the general problem of analysing and modelling call centre arrival data. A method is described for analysing such data using singular value decomposition (SVD). We illustrate that the outcome from the SVD can be used for data visualization, detection of anomalies (outliers), and extraction of significant features from noisy data. The SVD can also be employed as a data reduction tool. Its application usually results in a parsimonious representation of the original data without losing much information. We describe how one can use the reduced data for some further, more formal statistical analysis. For example, a short‐term forecasting model for call volumes is developed, which is multiplicative with a time series component that depends on day of the week. We report empirical results from applying the proposed method to some real data collected at a call centre of a large‐scale U.S. financial organization. Some issues about forecasting call volumes are also discussed. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Date: 2005
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