An ICERM Public Lecture: Count on Me to Write a Mathematics/Statistics Book

The idea of writing a mathematics/statistics book never crossed Kimberly Sellers's mind! How, then, did she get from there to having a published reference to her credit? This talk discusses Sellers's journey towards becoming a published book author, offering context and background regarding the research area of discrete/count data modeling.
Kimberly F. Sellers, Ph.D. is the Head and Professor of the Statistics Department at the North Carolina State University since August 2023. She has published widely regarding statistical methods for count data that display significant data dispersion and is a co-creator of several related R packages for statistical computation. Sellers is the author of the reference, The Conway-Maxwell Poisson Distribution (Cambridge University Press, 2023), the first compilation describing the distribution theory and statistical methods developed to provide flexible alternatives to Poisson modeling via the Conway-Maxwell-Poisson distribution, including regression analysis, control chart theory, spatio-temporal models, and cure-rate models. She has been recognized as an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute, a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, and an American Women in Mathematics Fellow. Sellers has held previous faculty positions at Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Georgetown University.
This ICERM Public Lecture was a pre-conference event for the 2024 Blackwell-Tapia Conference, hosted at the U.S. National Science Foundation Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics at Brown University.
November 14, 2025