A Family of Growth Models for Representing the Price Process in Online Auctions

Statistical Methods in e-Commerce Research

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 291-324

  Hyde, Valerie ^a   Shmueli, Galit ^b   Jank, Wolfgang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

GROWTH MODELS; ONLINE AUCTIONS; PRICE PROCESS;

EID: 84953866685     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470315262.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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