On Nov 25 Prof Shmueli presented her work on "A Flexible Regression Model for Count Data" (joint work with Prof Kimberly Sellers, Georgetown University) at the Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata, India. During her visit with the Bayesian Interdisciplinary Research Unit there, she also visited the Mahalanobis museum.

Shmueli et al. (2005) revived a useful discrete distribution called CMP (the Conway–Maxwell–Poisson distribution) and introduced its statistical and probabilistic properties. This distribution is a two-parameter extension of the Poisson distribution that generalizes some well-known discrete distributions (Poisson, Bernoulli and geometric).

"Predictive vs. Explanatory Modeling in IS Research" by Profs. Shmueli & Koppius is the recipient of the CIST 2007 Best Paper Award (November 2007)

Prof. Shmueli will be organizing a panel on "explanatory vs. predictive modeling in eCommerce" in the 2nd symposium on Statistical Challenges in eCommerce.