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CLV (BTYD Model Prep)

Customer-lifetime-value (BTYD) model input preparation.

This module adapts OpenRetailScience transaction data into the per-customer summary frame consumed by the "buy-till-you-die" models in pymc-marketing <https://www.pymc-marketing.io/>_ — ParetoNBDModel (churn and purchase frequency) and GammaGammaModel (per-transaction spend).

The summary follows the standard BTYD convention, where each customer is "born" at their first purchase and observed until observation_period_end:

  • frequency — number of repeat purchase occasions (total occasions minus one). An occasion is a distinct calendar day with positive net spend (returns-only days excluded).
  • recency — time from the first purchase to the last purchase.
  • T — the customer's "age": time from the first purchase to observation_period_end.
  • monetary_value — mean spend across the repeat purchases (excludes the first, per the Gamma-Gamma assumption). NaN for one-time buyers, who fall back to the population mean.

recency and T are expressed in period units ("day", "week", or "month"; a month is a fixed 365.25/12-day unit) and are fractional (e.g. 2.5 weeks). The elapsed time is measured in whole days and then divided by the days-per-period, because the Oracle backend supports only day-granularity date deltas (see openretailscience.analysis.cohort for the same constraint).

The first purchase is always the earliest transaction in the supplied data, exactly as pymc_marketing.clv.rfm_summary treats it. A customer who was already active before the data window is therefore treated as born at the window's start — a known limitation of a truncated observation period, not something this adapter corrects.

CLVStats

Prepares the per-customer BTYD summary for pymc-marketing CLV models.

Aggregates transaction data into the frequency / recency / T / monetary_value summary that ParetoNBDModel and GammaGammaModel consume. Results are accessible via the table attribute (ibis Table) or the df property (materialized pandas DataFrame). See the module docstring for column definitions.

Constructing CLVStats runs one aggregate query against the backend to resolve and validate the observation window (plus, when customer_attributes is given, one aggregate to check its customer_id is unique and a single distinct-value query enumerating all one_hot_col categories); the full per-customer summary stays lazy and is materialized only on first df access.

Parameters:

Name Type Description Default
data DataFrame | Table

Transaction data with the customer_id, transaction_date (a date/datetime type), and unit_spend columns. Undated rows and returns-only days (net spend <= 0) are excluded; a customer left with none drops out.

required
period str

The time unit for recency and T. One of "day", "week", or "month" (case-insensitive; short forms like "d"/"m" accepted). A month is a fixed 365.25/12-day unit. Defaults to "week".

'week'
observation_period_end str | date | None

The end of the observation window, from which each customer's age T is measured. An ISO-8601 string or a datetime.date. Defaults to the latest transaction date in data.

None
customer_attributes DataFrame | Table | None

A per-customer table (one row per customer_id) of extra columns to attach to the summary via a left join — covariates such as signup channel, region, or a pre-computed stores_shopped count. Build it however you like (e.g. SegTransactionStats grouped on customer_id). Must cover every customer with a non-NULL value for each (non-one-hot) covariate; a missing customer or NULL value is rejected on :attr:df access. Defaults to None.

None
one_hot_col str | list[str] | None

Column(s) of customer_attributes to one-hot encode into 0/1 dummy columns suitable for ParetoNBDModel covariates. For each column one level is dropped as the reference level (dummies would otherwise be collinear with the model intercept) — NULL when the column contains NULLs, otherwise the first value in sorted order — and the original column is removed. Warns (UserWarning) if a column yields more than 32 dummies (a likely high-cardinality mistake) or zero dummies (a single-category column that contributes no covariate). Defaults to None.

None

Raises:

Type Description
TypeError

If data or customer_attributes is not a pandas DataFrame or an Ibis Table, if transaction_date is not a date/datetime type, or if observation_period_end is not a valid date-like value.

ValueError

If required columns are missing, if period is not "day", "week", or "month", if observation_period_end is before the latest transaction, if customer_attributes lacks the customer_id column or has a duplicate customer_id, if one_hot_col is given without customer_attributes or names a column absent from it, if an attached column name collides with a reserved summary column, or if data contains no transactions.

Source code in openretailscience/experimental/clv.py
class CLVStats:
    """Prepares the per-customer BTYD summary for pymc-marketing CLV models.

    Aggregates transaction data into the ``frequency`` / ``recency`` / ``T`` /
    ``monetary_value`` summary that ``ParetoNBDModel`` and ``GammaGammaModel`` consume.
    Results are accessible via the ``table`` attribute (ibis Table) or the ``df`` property
    (materialized pandas DataFrame). See the module docstring for column definitions.

    Constructing ``CLVStats`` runs one aggregate query against the backend to resolve and
    validate the observation window (plus, when ``customer_attributes`` is given, one aggregate to
    check its customer_id is unique and a single distinct-value query enumerating all ``one_hot_col``
    categories); the full per-customer summary stays lazy and is materialized only on first
    ``df`` access.

    Args:
        data (pd.DataFrame | ibis.Table): Transaction data with the ``customer_id``,
            ``transaction_date`` (a date/datetime type), and ``unit_spend`` columns. Undated rows and
            returns-only days (net spend <= 0) are excluded; a customer left with none drops out.
        period (str, optional): The time unit for ``recency`` and ``T``. One of ``"day"``,
            ``"week"``, or ``"month"`` (case-insensitive; short forms like ``"d"``/``"m"`` accepted).
            A month is a fixed 365.25/12-day unit. Defaults to ``"week"``.
        observation_period_end (str | datetime.date | None, optional): The end of the
            observation window, from which each customer's age ``T`` is measured. An
            ISO-8601 string or a ``datetime.date``. Defaults to the latest transaction date
            in ``data``.
        customer_attributes (pd.DataFrame | ibis.Table | None, optional): A per-customer table (one
            row per ``customer_id``) of extra columns to attach to the summary via a left join —
            covariates such as signup channel, region, or a pre-computed ``stores_shopped`` count.
            Build it however you like (e.g. ``SegTransactionStats`` grouped on ``customer_id``). Must
            cover every customer with a non-NULL value for each (non-one-hot) covariate; a missing
            customer or NULL value is rejected on :attr:`df` access. Defaults to ``None``.
        one_hot_col (str | list[str] | None, optional): Column(s) of ``customer_attributes`` to
            one-hot encode into 0/1 dummy columns suitable for ``ParetoNBDModel`` covariates. For
            each column one level is dropped as the reference level (dummies would otherwise be
            collinear with the model intercept) — NULL when the column contains NULLs, otherwise the
            first value in sorted order — and the original column is removed. Warns (``UserWarning``)
            if a column yields more than 32 dummies (a likely high-cardinality mistake) or zero dummies
            (a single-category column that contributes no covariate). Defaults to ``None``.

    Raises:
        TypeError: If ``data`` or ``customer_attributes`` is not a pandas DataFrame or an Ibis Table,
            if ``transaction_date`` is not a date/datetime type, or if ``observation_period_end`` is
            not a valid date-like value.
        ValueError: If required columns are missing, if ``period`` is not ``"day"``, ``"week"``, or
            ``"month"``, if ``observation_period_end`` is before the latest transaction, if
            ``customer_attributes`` lacks the ``customer_id`` column or has a duplicate ``customer_id``,
            if ``one_hot_col`` is given without ``customer_attributes`` or names a column absent from
            it, if an attached column name collides with a reserved summary column, or if ``data``
            contains no transactions.
    """

    #: A "month" is a fixed 365.25/12-day unit (the average Gregorian month), not a calendar month, so
    #: fractional age stays well defined and 12 months is exactly one year.
    _DAYS_PER_MONTH: ClassVar[float] = 365.25 / 12
    VALID_PERIODS: ClassVar[tuple[str, ...]] = ("day", "week", "month")
    _DAYS_PER_PERIOD: ClassVar[dict[str, float]] = {"day": 1, "week": 7, "month": _DAYS_PER_MONTH}
    #: Maps each period to pymc-marketing's ``time_unit`` code; exposed via ``pymc_time_unit``.
    _PYMC_TIME_UNIT: ClassVar[dict[str, str]] = {"day": "D", "week": "W", "month": "M"}
    #: |Pearson r| between frequency and monetary_value above which ``repeat_buyers`` warns: GammaGamma
    #: assumes the two are independent, and a stronger correlation biases its spend estimates (0.10-0.15
    #: is the practical "weak enough" band in BTYD guidance).
    _MONETARY_FREQUENCY_CORR_WARN: ClassVar[float] = 0.15
    #: The base BTYD output columns (literal pymc-marketing names); anything else on the summary is a
    #: covariate attached via customer_attributes / one_hot_col. See ``covariate_cols``.
    _BASE_SUMMARY_COLUMNS: ClassVar[tuple[str, ...]] = ("customer_id", "frequency", "recency", "T", "monetary_value")

    def __init__(
        self,
        data: pd.DataFrame | ibis.Table,
        *,
        period: str = "week",
        observation_period_end: str | datetime.date | None = None,
        customer_attributes: pd.DataFrame | ibis.Table | None = None,
        one_hot_col: str | list[str] | None = None,
    ) -> None:
        """Initializes and computes the BTYD summary."""
        cols = ColumnHelper()
        data = ensure_ibis_table(data, "data")
        ensure_data_has_columns(data, [cols.customer_id, cols.transaction_date, cols.unit_spend])
        ensure_tznaive_datetime(data, cols.transaction_date)
        period = ensure_period(period, self.VALID_PERIODS, "period")
        attributes = self._prepare_customer_attributes(customer_attributes)
        one_hot_cols = self._resolve_one_hot_cols(attributes, one_hot_col)

        # Drop undated rows: a NULL date forms its own occasion and skews recency/T.
        data = data.filter(data[cols.transaction_date].notnull())  # noqa: PD004 (ibis API, not pandas)
        # Cast the single max scalar to a date (not every row) — same idiom as segmentation/rfm.py.
        latest_raw = data[cols.transaction_date].max().cast("date").execute()
        if pd.isna(latest_raw):  # None or NaT: the table has no transactions to summarize.
            msg = "data contains no transactions; cannot build a CLV summary."
            raise ValueError(msg)
        latest_transaction = _coerce_to_date(latest_raw)
        if observation_period_end is None:
            observation_period_end = latest_transaction
        else:
            observation_period_end = _coerce_to_date(observation_period_end)
            if observation_period_end < latest_transaction:
                msg = (
                    f"observation_period_end ({observation_period_end}) must be on or after the latest "
                    f"transaction date ({latest_transaction}); an earlier end would produce a negative age."
                )
                raise ValueError(msg)

        summary = self._compute_summary(data, period, observation_period_end)
        table = self._attach_customer_attributes(summary, attributes, one_hot_cols)
        # pymc-marketing requires the id column named literally "customer_id" (no remap arg), like the
        # other four. Rename so an overridden customer_id option still yields a model-ready summary.
        if cols.customer_id != "customer_id":
            table = table.rename({"customer_id": cols.customer_id})
        self.period = period
        self.table = table

    @staticmethod
    def _prepare_customer_attributes(customer_attributes: pd.DataFrame | ibis.Table | None) -> ibis.Table | None:
        """Validate and normalize the customer_attributes table to an Ibis Table.

        Args:
            customer_attributes (pd.DataFrame | ibis.Table | None): The caller-supplied per-customer
                attribute table (one row per ``customer_id``), or ``None``.

        Returns:
            ibis.Table | None: The attributes as an Ibis Table, or ``None`` if none were supplied.

        Raises:
            TypeError: If ``customer_attributes`` is neither a pandas DataFrame nor an Ibis Table.
            ValueError: If it lacks the ``customer_id`` column, or has a duplicate ``customer_id``
                (a left join on a non-unique key would fan out, i.e. duplicate, the summary rows).
        """
        if customer_attributes is None:
            return None
        cols = ColumnHelper()
        attributes = ensure_ibis_table(customer_attributes, "customer_attributes")
        if cols.customer_id not in attributes.columns:
            msg = f"customer_attributes must contain the customer_id column '{cols.customer_id}'."
            raise ValueError(msg)
        counts = attributes.aggregate(
            rows=attributes.count(),
            customers=attributes[cols.customer_id].nunique(),
        ).execute()
        if counts["rows"].iloc[0] != counts["customers"].iloc[0]:
            msg = "customer_attributes must have one row per customer_id; found duplicate customer ids."
            raise ValueError(msg)
        return attributes

    @staticmethod
    def _resolve_one_hot_cols(
        attributes: ibis.Table | None,
        one_hot_col: str | list[str] | None,
    ) -> list[str]:
        """Normalize ``one_hot_col`` to a de-duplicated list of columns present in ``attributes``.

        Args:
            attributes (ibis.Table | None): The prepared customer_attributes table, or ``None``.
            one_hot_col (str | list[str] | None): The user-supplied one-hot column(s).

        Returns:
            list[str]: The normalized, de-duplicated one-hot column names (empty if ``one_hot_col`` is None).

        Raises:
            ValueError: If ``one_hot_col`` is given without ``customer_attributes``, or names a column
                absent from ``customer_attributes``.
        """
        if one_hot_col is None:
            return []
        if attributes is None:
            msg = "one_hot_col requires customer_attributes; there are no columns to encode."
            raise ValueError(msg)
        one_hot_cols = ensure_columns(attributes, one_hot_col, "one_hot_col")
        # De-duplicate while preserving order: a repeated column would be encoded twice, and the first
        # pass drops it, so the second would fail to find it.
        return list(dict.fromkeys(one_hot_cols))

    @staticmethod
    def _attach_customer_attributes(
        summary: ibis.Table,
        attributes: ibis.Table | None,
        one_hot_cols: list[str],
    ) -> ibis.Table:
        """Left-join the per-customer attributes onto the summary, one-hot encoding the requested columns.

        Args:
            summary (ibis.Table): The base BTYD summary (one row per customer).
            attributes (ibis.Table | None): The prepared customer_attributes table, or ``None``.
            one_hot_cols (list[str]): Normalized one-hot column names (a subset of the attribute columns).

        Returns:
            ibis.Table: The summary with the attribute and one-hot columns attached.

        Raises:
            ValueError: If an attached column name collides with a reserved BTYD summary column
                (``customer_id``, ``frequency``, ``recency``, ``T``, ``monetary_value``).
        """
        if attributes is None:
            return summary
        cols = ColumnHelper()
        if len(one_hot_cols) > 0:
            attributes = _one_hot_encode(attributes, one_hot_cols)

        attached = [col for col in attributes.columns if col != cols.customer_id]
        # Reserve the literal "customer_id" too (the output id name __init__ renames to); else under an
        # overridden customer_id option an attribute named "customer_id" silently collides.
        collisions = sorted(set(attached) & (set(summary.columns) | {"customer_id"}))
        if len(collisions) > 0:
            msg = f"customer_attributes / one_hot_col columns collide with reserved BTYD summary columns: {collisions}"
            raise ValueError(msg)

        # Reselect the base columns plus the attached ones, dropping the duplicated join key ibis
        # appends (e.g. customer_id_right); selecting by name avoids hardcoding the join suffix.
        return summary.left_join(attributes, cols.customer_id)[[*summary.columns, *attached]]

    @classmethod
    def _compute_summary(
        cls,
        data: ibis.Table,
        period: str,
        observation_period_end: datetime.date,
    ) -> ibis.Table:
        """Computes the BTYD summary table.

        Args:
            data (ibis.Table): The validated transaction data.
            period (str): The validated period unit (``"day"``, ``"week"``, or ``"month"``).
            observation_period_end (datetime.date): The resolved observation window end.

        Returns:
            ibis.Table: One row per customer with the BTYD summary columns.
        """
        cols = ColumnHelper()
        # Collapse to one purchase occasion per customer per calendar day, summing spend
        # within the day (same-day baskets are a single occasion under the BTYD convention).
        day = data[cols.transaction_date].cast("date").name("_day")
        daily = data.group_by([cols.customer_id, day]).aggregate(_day_spend=data[cols.unit_spend].sum())

        # A day is an occasion only if its net spend is positive; returns-only days are not purchases.
        daily = daily.filter(daily._day_spend > 0)

        # A repeat occasion is any purchase day after the customer's first purchase day. The flag is
        # an int rather than a bool because SQL Server has no boolean type to project into a SELECT.
        first_day = daily["_day"].min().over(ibis.window(group_by=daily[cols.customer_id]))
        daily = daily.mutate(_is_repeat=ibis.ifelse(daily["_day"] > first_day, 1, 0).cast("int8"))

        summary = daily.group_by(cols.customer_id).aggregate(
            _first_day=daily["_day"].min(),
            _last_day=daily["_day"].max(),
            _occasions=daily.count(),
            _repeat_spend=daily._day_spend.sum(where=daily._is_repeat == 1),
        )

        days_per_period = cls._DAYS_PER_PERIOD[period]
        observation_end = ibis.literal(observation_period_end)
        frequency = summary._occasions - 1

        # frequency / recency / T / monetary_value are pymc-marketing's required literal names
        # (deliberately not options.py names). The id keeps its configured name here for the join
        # keys; __init__ renames the final column to the literal "customer_id" the models also need.
        return summary.mutate(
            frequency=frequency.cast("int64"),
            # Day-granularity delta (Oracle-safe) divided by days-per-period for a fractional age.
            recency=summary._last_day.delta(summary._first_day, unit="day") / days_per_period,
            T=observation_end.delta(summary._first_day, unit="day") / days_per_period,
            monetary_value=summary._repeat_spend / frequency.nullif(0),
        ).select(
            cols.customer_id,
            "frequency",
            "recency",
            "T",
            "monetary_value",
        )

    @functools.cached_property
    def df(self) -> pd.DataFrame:
        """Returns the materialized BTYD summary as a pandas DataFrame.

        The ``customer_id`` is a column (not the index) so the frame can be passed straight
        to ``ParetoNBDModel`` / ``GammaGammaModel``, which expect it as a column.

        Returns:
            pd.DataFrame: One row per customer with columns ``customer_id``, ``frequency``,
                ``recency``, ``T``, and ``monetary_value``, followed by any ``customer_attributes``
                and one-hot columns requested at construction.

        Raises:
            ValueError: If a covariate column is NULL for any customer (a customer missing from
                ``customer_attributes``, or a NULL attribute value). NULL covariates silently break
                ``ParetoNBDModel``'s fit, which does not validate for them.
        """
        result = self.table.execute()
        # Checking one-hot dummies too is safe: a NULL *source* value became the reference level (0), so a
        # dummy reads NULL only for a customer missing from the join -- exactly the case worth rejecting.
        null_covariates = [col for col in self.covariate_cols if result[col].isna().any()]
        if len(null_covariates) > 0:
            msg = (
                f"customer_attributes leaves NULL in covariate column(s) {null_covariates}: a customer is "
                "missing from customer_attributes, or has a NULL attribute value. NULL covariates make "
                "ParetoNBDModel's fit fail. Provide non-NULL covariates for every customer, or drop those "
                "customers first."
            )
            raise ValueError(msg)
        return result

    @property
    def repeat_buyers(self) -> pd.DataFrame:
        """The GammaGamma-ready subset of :attr:`df` — the repeat buyers (``frequency > 0``, index reset).

        One-time buyers (``NaN`` monetary_value) are excluded; ``GammaGammaModel`` cannot fit them. No
        spend filter is needed because ``monetary_value`` is always positive here. Warns (``UserWarning``)
        if ``|Pearson r|`` between ``frequency`` and ``monetary_value`` exceeds
        ``_MONETARY_FREQUENCY_CORR_WARN``, breaking GammaGamma's independence assumption.

        Returns:
            pd.DataFrame: The ``frequency > 0`` rows of :attr:`df`, index reset.
        """
        summary = self.df
        gg_ready = summary[summary["frequency"] > 0].reset_index(drop=True)
        if len(gg_ready) == 0:  # no repeat buyers: nothing to correlate
            return gg_ready
        # Correlation is only defined when both columns vary; a constant column would divide by a zero
        # standard deviation (NaN, plus a numpy warning), so skip the check in that degenerate case.
        frequency, monetary_value = gg_ready["frequency"], gg_ready["monetary_value"]
        both_vary = frequency.min() != frequency.max() and monetary_value.min() != monetary_value.max()
        if both_vary:
            corr = frequency.corr(monetary_value)
            if abs(corr) > self._MONETARY_FREQUENCY_CORR_WARN:
                warnings.warn(
                    f"frequency and monetary_value are correlated (Pearson r={corr:.2f}); GammaGamma assumes "
                    "they are independent, so its spend estimates may be biased.",
                    stacklevel=2,
                )
        return gg_ready

    @property
    def covariate_cols(self) -> list[str]:
        """The covariate columns attached to the summary (customer_attributes and one-hot dummies).

        Every column beyond the base BTYD summary, ready to pass as ``purchase_covariate_cols`` /
        ``dropout_covariate_cols`` to ``ParetoNBDModel``.

        Returns:
            list[str]: The covariate column names in summary order (empty if none were requested).
        """
        return [col for col in self.table.columns if col not in self._BASE_SUMMARY_COLUMNS]

    @property
    def pymc_time_unit(self) -> str:
        """The pymc-marketing ``time_unit`` matching this summary's ``period`` (``"D"``/``"W"``/``"M"``).

        Pass as the ``time_unit`` of ``GammaGammaModel.expected_customer_lifetime_value``, whose ``future_t``
        is in months and defaults to ``"D"``, silently wrong for a weekly summary (horizon off ~7x) or a
        monthly one (~30x).

        Returns:
            str: ``"D"`` for ``period="day"``, ``"W"`` for ``"week"``, ``"M"`` for ``"month"``.
        """
        return self._PYMC_TIME_UNIT[self.period]

covariate_cols property

The covariate columns attached to the summary (customer_attributes and one-hot dummies).

Every column beyond the base BTYD summary, ready to pass as purchase_covariate_cols / dropout_covariate_cols to ParetoNBDModel.

Returns:

Type Description
list[str]

list[str]: The covariate column names in summary order (empty if none were requested).

df cached property

Returns the materialized BTYD summary as a pandas DataFrame.

The customer_id is a column (not the index) so the frame can be passed straight to ParetoNBDModel / GammaGammaModel, which expect it as a column.

Returns:

Type Description
DataFrame

pd.DataFrame: One row per customer with columns customer_id, frequency, recency, T, and monetary_value, followed by any customer_attributes and one-hot columns requested at construction.

Raises:

Type Description
ValueError

If a covariate column is NULL for any customer (a customer missing from customer_attributes, or a NULL attribute value). NULL covariates silently break ParetoNBDModel's fit, which does not validate for them.

pymc_time_unit property

The pymc-marketing time_unit matching this summary's period ("D"/"W"/"M").

Pass as the time_unit of GammaGammaModel.expected_customer_lifetime_value, whose future_t is in months and defaults to "D", silently wrong for a weekly summary (horizon off ~7x) or a monthly one (~30x).

Returns:

Name Type Description
str str

"D" for period="day", "W" for "week", "M" for "month".

repeat_buyers property

The GammaGamma-ready subset of :attr:df — the repeat buyers (frequency > 0, index reset).

One-time buyers (NaN monetary_value) are excluded; GammaGammaModel cannot fit them. No spend filter is needed because monetary_value is always positive here. Warns (UserWarning) if |Pearson r| between frequency and monetary_value exceeds _MONETARY_FREQUENCY_CORR_WARN, breaking GammaGamma's independence assumption.

Returns:

Type Description
DataFrame

pd.DataFrame: The frequency > 0 rows of :attr:df, index reset.

__init__(data, *, period='week', observation_period_end=None, customer_attributes=None, one_hot_col=None)

Initializes and computes the BTYD summary.

Source code in openretailscience/experimental/clv.py
def __init__(
    self,
    data: pd.DataFrame | ibis.Table,
    *,
    period: str = "week",
    observation_period_end: str | datetime.date | None = None,
    customer_attributes: pd.DataFrame | ibis.Table | None = None,
    one_hot_col: str | list[str] | None = None,
) -> None:
    """Initializes and computes the BTYD summary."""
    cols = ColumnHelper()
    data = ensure_ibis_table(data, "data")
    ensure_data_has_columns(data, [cols.customer_id, cols.transaction_date, cols.unit_spend])
    ensure_tznaive_datetime(data, cols.transaction_date)
    period = ensure_period(period, self.VALID_PERIODS, "period")
    attributes = self._prepare_customer_attributes(customer_attributes)
    one_hot_cols = self._resolve_one_hot_cols(attributes, one_hot_col)

    # Drop undated rows: a NULL date forms its own occasion and skews recency/T.
    data = data.filter(data[cols.transaction_date].notnull())  # noqa: PD004 (ibis API, not pandas)
    # Cast the single max scalar to a date (not every row) — same idiom as segmentation/rfm.py.
    latest_raw = data[cols.transaction_date].max().cast("date").execute()
    if pd.isna(latest_raw):  # None or NaT: the table has no transactions to summarize.
        msg = "data contains no transactions; cannot build a CLV summary."
        raise ValueError(msg)
    latest_transaction = _coerce_to_date(latest_raw)
    if observation_period_end is None:
        observation_period_end = latest_transaction
    else:
        observation_period_end = _coerce_to_date(observation_period_end)
        if observation_period_end < latest_transaction:
            msg = (
                f"observation_period_end ({observation_period_end}) must be on or after the latest "
                f"transaction date ({latest_transaction}); an earlier end would produce a negative age."
            )
            raise ValueError(msg)

    summary = self._compute_summary(data, period, observation_period_end)
    table = self._attach_customer_attributes(summary, attributes, one_hot_cols)
    # pymc-marketing requires the id column named literally "customer_id" (no remap arg), like the
    # other four. Rename so an overridden customer_id option still yields a model-ready summary.
    if cols.customer_id != "customer_id":
        table = table.rename({"customer_id": cols.customer_id})
    self.period = period
    self.table = table