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Modeling Online Auctions
Description: Explore cutting-edge statistical methodologies for collecting, analyzing, and modeling online auction
data
Online auctions are an increasingly important marketplace, as the new mechanisms and formats
underlying these auctions have enabled the capturing and recording of large amounts of bidding
data that are used to make important business decisions. As a result, new statistical ideas and
innovation are needed to understand bidders, sellers, and prices. Combining methodologies from
the fields of statistics, data mining, information systems, and economics, Modeling Online Auctions
introduces a new approach to identifying obstacles and asking new questions using online auction
data.
The authors draw upon their extensive experience to introduce the latest methods for extracting
new knowledge from online auction data. Rather than approach the topic from the traditional game
-theoretic perspective, the book treats the online auction mechanism as a data generator, outlining
methods to collect, explore, model, and forecast data. Topics covered include:
- Data collection methods for online auctions and related issues that arise in drawing data samples
from a Web site
- Models for bidder and bid arrivals, treating the different approaches for exploring bidder-seller
networks
- Data exploration, such as integration of time series and cross-sectional information; curve
clustering; semi-continuous data structures; and data hierarchies
- The use of functional regression as well as functional differential equation models, spatial models,
and stochastic models for capturing relationships in auction data
- Specialized methods and models for forecasting auction prices and their applications in automated
bidding decision rule systems
Throughout the book, R and MATLAB software are used for illustrating the discussed techniques. In
addition, a related Web site features many of the book's datasets and R and MATLAB code that
allow readers to replicate the analyses and learn new methods to apply to their own research.
Modeling Online Auctions is a valuable book for graduate-level courses on data mining and applied
regression analysis. It is also a one-of-a-kind reference for researchers in the fields of statistics,
information systems, business, and marketing who work with electronic data and are looking for
new approaches for understanding online auctions and processes.
Contents: Preface.
Acknowledgments.
1 Introduction.
1.1 Online Auctions and Electronic Commerce.
1.2 Online Auctions and Statistical Challenges.
1.3 A Statistical Approach to Online Auction Research.
1.4 The Structure of this Book.
1.5 Data and Code Availability.
2 Obtaining Online Auction Data.
2.1 Collecting Data from the Web.
2.2 Web Data Collection and Statistical Sampling.
3 Exploring Online Auction Data.
3.1 Bid Histories: Bids versus "Current Price" Values.
3.2 Integrating Bid History Data With Cross-Sectional Auction Information.
3.3 Visualizing Concurrent Auctions.
3.4 Exploring Price Evolution and Price Dynamics.
3.5 Combining Price Curves with Auction Information via Interactive Visualization.
3.6 Exploring Hierarchical Information.
3.7 Exploring Price Dynamics via Curve Clustering.
3.8 Exploring Distributional Assumptions.
3.9 Exploring Online Auctions: Future Research Directions.
4 Modeling Online Auction Data.
4.1 Modeling Basics (Representing the Price Process).
4.2 Modeling The Relation Between Price Dynamics and Auction Information.
4.3 Modeling Auction Competition.
4.4 Modeling Bid and Bidder Arrivals.
4.5 Modeling Auction Networks.
5 Forecasting Online Auctions.
5.1 Forecasting Individual Auctions.
5.2 Forecasting Competing Auctions.
5.3 Automated Bidding Decisions.
Bibliography.
Index.
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