Modelling price paths in on-line auctions: Smoothing sparse and unevenly sampled curves by using semiparametric mixed models

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 127-148

  Reithinger, Florian ^a   Jank, Wolfgang ^b,c   Tutz, Gerhard ^a   Shmueli, Galit ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Boosting; eBay; Mixed model; Non parametric methods; On line auction; Penalized splines; Smoothing

Indexed keywords

EID: 43449095730     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: 14679876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2007.00605.x     Document Type: Article

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