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Gunnar Stefánsson - Professor
–
School of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Gunnar Stefánsson
Íslenska
Professor
Professor of statistics
Location
Tæknigarður / Tg-218
Phone
525 - 5915
Email
gunnar [at] hi.is
Unit
Faculty of Physical Sciences
Website
http://www.hi.is/~gunnar
Published Work
Gunnar Stefánsson - published work
Curriculum Vitae
Gunnar Stefánsson - Curriculum Vitae
ORCID site
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2693-9142
Research portal – Gunnar Stefánsson
Courses 2024 - 2025
STÆ417M - Statistics Seminar
MAS201M - Statistical Consulting
Education
1983
,
Ph.D.
,
Ohio State University
,
Statistics
1981
,
M.S.
,
Ohio State University
,
Statistics
1978
,
B.S.
,
University of Iceland
,
Applied Mathematics
Professional Experience
2007 -
,
Director,
The Statistics Center of the University of Iceland
2003 -
,
Professor,
University of Iceland
1999 -
2003,
Associate Professor,
University of Iceland
2000 -
2002,
Chairman,
Dept. of Mathematics at the University of Iceland
1999 -
2000,
Deputy Director,
Marine Research Institute
1983 -
1999,
Head of MRI Modeling Division,
Published works
2024
Using the Open Source Collaborative Model for Digital Educational Content
Where does money matter more?
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
2023
USER EXPERIENCE WITH EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY IN AFRICAN SLUMS
2022
MATHEMATICS AND INCENTIVES IN THE SLUMS
Spatiotemporal variation in fishing patterns and fishing pressure in Lake Victoria (East Africa) in relation to balanced harvest
Fisheries Research
2021
LEARNING AND EVALUATION WITHOUT ACCESS TO SCHOOLS DURING COVID-19
INTED 2021 Proceedings
THE EFFECT OF THE NUMBER OF DISTRACTORS AND THE "NONE OF THE ABOVE" - "ALL OF THE ABOVE" OPTIONS IN MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS.
INTED 2021 Proceedings
Estimating F
msy
from an ensemble of data sources to account for density dependence in Northeast Atlantic fish stocks
ICES Journal of Marine Science
Using real data for statistics education in an open-source learning environment
Teaching Statistics
Corrigendum Estimating Fmsy from an ensemble of data sources to account for density dependence in Northeast Atlantic fish stocks
ICES Journal of Marine Science
IDENTIFYING ROTE LEARNING AND THE SUPPORTING EFFECTS OF HINTS IN DRILLS.
INTED 2021 Proceedings
2020
Comparison and evaluation of approaches aimed at correcting or reducing selectivity bias in growth parameter estimates for fishes
Fisheries Research
Ecosystem modelling of data-limited fisheries
Journal of Great Lakes Research
Catch-quota matching allowances balance economic and ecological targets in a fishery managed by individual transferable quota
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Simulating trade-offs between socio-economic and conservation objectives for Lake Victoria (East Africa) using multispecies, multifleet ecosystem models
Fisheries Research
2019
Aspects of both growth and selectivity affect growth parameter estimation bias
Fisheries Research
From Multiple-Choice Through Free-Text Submissions and Qualitative Peer-Reviews To Grading Students and Reviewers.
INTED2019 Proceedings
Learning Wherever, Whenever: Education in a Suitcase.
EDULEARN19 Proceedings
Understanding ontogenetic and temporal variability of Eastern Baltic cod diet using a multispecies model and stomach data
Fisheries Research
Implementing the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management
Fisheries Research
Drivers of growth for Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua L.) in Icelandic waters – A Bayesian approach to determine spatiotemporal variation and its causes
Journal of Fish Biology
Ecosystem models of Lake Victoria (East Africa)
Journal of Great Lakes Research
2018
End-to-end model of Icelandic waters using the Atlantis framework: Exploring system dynamics and model reliability
Fisheries Research
Evaluating the effectiveness of real-time closures for reducing susceptibility of small fish to capture
ICES Journal of Marine Science
End-to-end model of Icelandic waters using the Atlantis framework: Exploring system dynamics and model reliability
Fisheries Research
Applying System Analysis and System Dynamics Modelling In Complex Research Projects - The Case Of VALUMICS
International Journal on Food System Dynamics
Evaluation of ptarmigan management with a population reconstruction model
Journal of Wildlife Management
2017
Feather holes of rock ptarmigans are associated with amblyceran chewing lice
Wildlife Biology
Prediction of Lake Victoria's response to varied fishing regimes using the Atlantis ecosystem model
Fisheries Research
EVIDENCE-BASED TECHNOLOGY TO ENHANCE MATHEMATICS EDUCATION FROM ICELAND TO KENYA.
NTED2017 Proceedings
From Smileys to Smileycoins: Using a Cryptocurrency in Education
Ledger
Difference in learning among students doing pen-and-paper homework compared to web-based homework in an introductory statistics course
Journal of Statistics Education
Detection of a changepoint, a mean-shift accompanied with a trend change, in short time-series with autocorrelation
Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
2016
Host-Parasite Interactions and Population Dynamics of Rock Ptarmigan
PLoS ONE
Simulation of Lake Victoria circulation patterns using the regional ocean Modeling system (ROMS)
PLoS ONE
Optimized Sampling Strategies for Identifying Modes in Length-frequency Distributions
Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation
Exploring Lake Victoria ecosystem functioning using the Atlantis modeling framework
Environmental Modelling and Software
2015
Design and Analysis of Experiments Linking on-line Drilling Methods to Improvements in Knowledge
Journal of Statistical Science and Application
Development and use of an adaptive learning environment to research online study behaviour
Educational Technology and Society
A competitive coevolution scheme inspired by DE
The effect of SNPs on expression levels in Nimblegen RNA expression microarrays
International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics
2014
From evaluation to learning
Computers and Education
Temporal trends of contaminants in cod from icelandic waters
Science of the Total Environment
A small-scale comparison of Iceland scallop size distributions obtained from a camera based autonomous underwater vehicle and dredge survey
PLoS ONE
A bootstrap method for estimating bias and variance in statistical fisheries modelling frameworks using highly disparate datasets
African Journal of Marine Science
The relationship between parasites and spleen and bursa mass in the Icelandic Rock Ptarmigan Lagopus muta
Journal of Ornithology
A method for detecting long non-coding RNAs with tiled RNA expression microarrays
PLoS ONE
A mobile web for enhancing statistics and mathematics education
ICOTS 9 proceedings
2013
ENHANCED LEARNING WITH WEB-ASSISTED EDUCATION: THE TUTOR-WEB.
EDULEARN13
Spatial and temporal trends of contaminants in mussel sampled around the Icelandic coastline
Science of the Total Environment
A camera-based autonomous underwater vehicle sampling approach to quantify scallop abundance
Journal of Shellfish Research
The Tutor-Web for Math and Stats: A Content Storage and Drilling System
JSM Proceedings: American Statistical Association
Könnunarpróf nýnema í stærðfræði við Háskóla Íslands
Tímarit um menntarannsóknir
2012
Present status of the commercial sea cucumber fishery off the north-west and east coasts of Sri Lanka
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
Habitat preference of sea cucumbers
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
2011
Robustness of fish assemblages derived from three hierarchical agglomerative clustering algorithms performed on Icelandic groundfish survey data
ICES Journal of Marine Science
The potential use of a Gadget model to predict stock responses to climate change in combination with Bayesian networks: the case of Bay of Biscay anchovy
ICES Journal of Marine Science
A case study of sampling strategies for estimating the length composition of commercial catches
Crustaceana
First implementation of a Gadget model for the analysis of hake in the Mediterranean
Fisheries Research
Web-assisted education: From evaluation to learning
Journal of Instructional Psychology
A freely available cyber-university for personalized education
Edulearn11
2010
On building a web-based university
US-China Educational Review
Reproductive biology of the commercial sea cucumber holothuria atra (holothuroidea
Invertebrate Reproduction and Development
Abundance and distribution of commercial sea cucumber species in the coastal waters of Sri Lanka
Aquatic Living Resources
2009
Identification and classification of expressed RNA probes in microarray experiments
Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) proceedings, Biometrics Section
Interactive quizzes for continuous learning and evaluation
The tutor-web, a step towards building an active web based university
Greining á framförum nemenda innan vefkerfis sem býður upp á gagnvirk krossapróf
RAUST - Tímarit um raunvísindi og stærðfræði
2008
Bathymetric preferences of juvenile European hake (Merluccius merluccius)
ICES Journal of Marine Science
On the use of tagging data in statistical multispecies multi-area models of marine populations
ICES Journal of Marine Science
2007
A simple implementation of the statistical modelling framework Gadget for cod in Icelandic waters
African Journal of Marine Science
2006
Decimals in data values
Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica
Designing marine protected areas for migrating fish stocks
Journal of Fish Biology
2005
Combining control measures for more effective management of fisheries under uncertainty
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2004
The tutor-web
Computers and Education
Analysis of cod catch data from Icelandic groundfish surveys using generalized linear models
Fisheries Research
A model for categorical length data from groundfish surveys
Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
When can marine reserves improve fisheries management?
Ocean and Coastal Management
Examining the importance of consistency in multi-vessel trawl survey design based on the U.S. west coast groundfish bottom trawl survey
Fisheries Research
2003
Mat á lengdardreifingum
RAUST - Tímarit um raunvísindi og stærðfræði
Issues in multispecies models
Natural Resource Modeling
2001
Estimating uncertainty in fish stock assessment and forecasting
Fish and Fisheries
2000
Spatial variation in abundance, size composition and viable egg production of spawning cod (Gadus morhua L.) in Icelandic waters
ICES Journal of Marine Science
1999
Management of summer-spawning herring off Iceland
ICES Journal of Marine Science
Growth and maturation of haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) in Icelandic waters
Journal of Northwest Atlantic Fishery Science
1998
Aspects of the ecology of a Boreal system
ICES Journal of Marine Science
Rational harvesting of the cod-capelin-shrimp complex in the Icelandic marine ecosystem
Fisheries Research
Points of view
Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries
1997
On dynamic interactions between some fish resources and cetaceans off Iceland based on a simulation model
Journal of Northwest Atlantic Fishery Science
Potential collapse of North Sea cod stocks
Nature
Statistical evaluation and modelling of the stomach contents of icelandic cod (Gadus morhua)
Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
Utilization of the icelandic cod stock in a multispecies context
Marine Resource Economics
1996
Analysis of groundfish survey abundance data
ICES Journal of Marine Science
On the rational utilization of the Icelandic cod stock
ICES Journal of Marine Science
1993
Stock'related changes in biological parameters of the Icelandic summer'Spawning herring
Fisheries Oceanography
Definition of the problem of estimating fish abundance over an area from acoustic line-transect measurements of density
ICES Journal of Marine Science
1989
A feedback strategy to regulate catches from a whale stock
Reports - International Whaling Commission, Special Issue
Icelandic groundfish survey data used to improve precision in stock assessments
Journal of Northwest Atlantic Fishery Science
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