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Cox model

also: Cox proportional-hazards model

The Cox proportional-hazards model is a survival-analysis technique that estimates how a set of inputs, here firmographics, affects the time until an event. In GTM, the event is churn.

Trained on your customer base's actual retention history, it produces a survival curve per account, letting you predict how long a company is likely to stay before you have ever spoken to them. One finding that surprised us: which CRM a company runs is one of the strongest survival predictors we have.

Watch: Adam explains it (badly)

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Fifteen seconds of cox model, as explained by Adam, our comedian-in-residence. If the definition did not land, maybe the joke will.

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See cox model in context in the full methodology.Read the guide