In recent years, the increasing popularity of eCommerce, and particularly online auctions has stirred a great amount of scholarly research, especially in information systems, economics,and marketing, but little or no attention has been received from statistics. ECommerce arrives with enormous...

Generalized Linear Mixed Models (GLMMs) extend the framework of Generalized Linear Models (GLMs) by including random effects into the linear predictor. This will achieve two main goals ofincorporating correlation and allowing broader inference. This thesis investigates estimation of fixed...

This article provides an extended response to the criticisms of the GLUE methodology by Mantovan and Todini [Mantovan, P., Todini, E., 2006. Hydrological forecasting uncertainty assessment: incoherence of the GLUE methodology. J. Hydrol. 330, 368–381]. It is shown that the formal Bayesian...