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...