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Stefanie Muff

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Stefanie Muff

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Department of Mathematical Sciences

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2024

  • Nafstad, Ådne Messel; Jensen, Henrik; Rønning, Bernt; Muff, Stefanie; Stawski, Clare; Räsänen, Katja. (2024) Ecological & evolutionary role of resting metabolic rate in wild house sparrow populations. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
    Doctoral dissertation
  • Saatoglu, Fikriye Dilan; Lundregan, Sarah; Fetterplace, Evelyn; Goedert, Debora; Husby, Arild; Niskanen, Alina Katariina. (2024) The genetic basis of dispersal in a vertebrate metapopulation. Molecular Ecology
    Academic article
  • Singsaas, Øyvind; Muff, Stefanie. (2024) Neural networks for genomic prediction in the wild. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
    Masters thesis
  • Skarstein, Emma Sofie; Bastos, Leonardo Soares; Rue, Håvard; Muff, Stefanie. (2024) Bayesian models for missing and misclassified variables using integrated nested Laplace approximations. arXiv.org
    Academic article
  • Skarstein, Emma Sofie; Muff, Stefanie. (2024) inlamemi: An R package for missing data imputation and measurement error modelling using INLA. arXiv.org
    Academic article
  • Aspheim, Janne Cathrin Hetle; Aase, Kenneth; Bolstad, Geir Hysing; Jensen, Henrik; Muff, Stefanie. (2024) Bayesian marker-based principal component ridge regression – a flexible multipurpose framework for quantitative genetics in wild study systems. BioRxiv
    Academic article

2023

  • Arce Guillen, Rafael; Lindgren, Finn Kristian; Muff, Stefanie; Glass, Thomas W.; Breed, Greg A.; Schlägel, Ulrike E.. (2023) Accounting for unobserved spatial variation in step selection analyses of animal movement via spatial random effects. Methods in Ecology and Evolution
    Academic article
  • Nafstad, Ådne Messel; Rønning, Bernt; Aase, Kenneth; Ringsby, Thor Harald; Hagen, Ingerid Julie; Ranke, Peter Sjolte. (2023) Spatial variation in the evolutionary potential and constraints of basal metabolic rate and body mass in a wild bird. Journal of Evolutionary Biology
    Academic article
  • Skarstein, Emma Sofie; Martino, Sara; Muff, Stefanie. (2023) A joint Bayesian framework for missing data and measurement error using integrated nested Laplace approximations. Biometrical Journal
    Academic article

2022

  • Egli, Mathias; Deforth, Manja; Keiser, Stefanie; Meyenberger, Patrick; Muff, Stefanie; Witt, Claudia M.. (2022) Effectiveness of hypnosis in third molar extraction: A randomized controlled trial (HypMol). Journal of Pain
    Academic article
  • Muff, Stefanie; Nilsen, Erlend Birkeland; O'Hara, Robert B.; Nater, Chloe Rebecca. (2022) Response to ‘Why P-values are not measures of evidence’ by D. Lakens. Trends in Ecology & Evolution
    Reader opinion piece
  • Muff, Stefanie; Nilsen, Erlend Birkeland; Nater, Chloe Rebecca; O'Hara, Robert B.. (2022) Joint reply to 'Rewriting results in the language of compatibility' by V. Amrhein and S. Greenland, and to 'The evidence contained in the P-value is context-dependent' by F. Hartig and F. Barraquand. Trends in Ecology & Evolution
    Reader opinion piece
  • Aase, Kenneth; Jensen, Henrik; Muff, Stefanie. (2022) Genomic estimation of quantitative genetic parameters in wild admixed populations. Methods in Ecology and Evolution
    Academic article

2021

  • Muff, Stefanie; Nilsen, Erlend Birkeland; OHara, Robert Brian; Nater, Chloe Rebecca. (2021) Rewriting results sections in the language of evidence. Trends in Ecology & Evolution
    Academic literature review
  • Aase, Kenneth; Muff, Stefanie. (2021) Genetic Group Animal Models in the Genomics Era. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
    Masters thesis
  • Barth, Jürgen; Muff, Stefanie; Kern, Alexandra; Zieger, Anja; Keiser, Stefanie; Zoller, Marco. (2021) Effect of Briefing on Acupuncture Treatment Outcome Expectations, Pain, and Adverse Side Effects among Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Network Open
    Academic article
  • Reid, Jane Margaret; Arcese, Peter; Nietlisbach, Pirmin; Wolak, Matthew; Muff, Stefanie; Dickel, Lisa. (2021) Immigration counter-acts local micro-evolution of a major fitness component: migration-selection balance in free-living song sparrows. Evolution Letters
    Academic article

2020

  • Lundregan, Sarah L.; Niskanen, Alina K.; Muff, Stefanie; Holand, Håkon; Kvalnes, Thomas; Ringsby, Thor-Harald. (2020) Resistance to gapeworm parasite has both additive and dominant genetic components in house sparrows, with evolutionary consequences for ability to respond to parasite challenge. Molecular Ecology
    Academic article
  • Niskanen, Alina Katariina; Billing, Anna Maria; Holand, Håkon; Hagen, Ingerid Julie; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Husby, Arild. (2020) Consistent scaling of inbreeding depression in space and time in a house sparrow metapopulation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS)
    Academic article

2019

  • Weinberger, Irene; Muff, Stefanie; Kranz, Andreas; Bontadina, Fabio. (2019) Riparian vegetation provides crucial shelter for resting otters in a human-dominated landscape. Mammalian Biology
    Academic article
  • Ponzi, Erica; Keller, Lukas F.; Muff, Stefanie. (2019) The simulation extrapolation technique meets ecology and evolution: A general and intuitive method to account for measurement error. Methods in Ecology and Evolution
    Academic article
  • Nietlisbach, Pirmin; Muff, Stefanie; Reid, Jane Margaret; Whitlock, Michael; Keller, Lukas F.. (2019) Nonequivalent lethal equivalents: Models and inbreeding metrics for unbiased estimation of inbreeding load. Evolutionary Applications
    Academic article
  • Muff, Stefanie; Niskanen, Alina Katariina; Saatoglu, Dilan; Keller, Lukas; Jensen, Henrik. (2019) Animal models with group-specific additive genetic variances: extending genetic group models. Genetics Selection Evolution
    Academic article
  • Muff, Stefanie. (2019) Book review for "Bayesian Regression Modeling with INLA" by Xiaofeng Wang, Yu Ryan Yue, and Julian J. Faraway. Journal of the American Statistical Association
    Book review
  • Nietlisbach, Pirmin; Muff, Stefanie; Reid, Jane M.; Whitlock, Michael; Keller, Lukas F.. (2019) Nonequivalent lethal equivalents: Models and inbreeding metrics for unbiased estimation of inbreeding load. Evolutionary Applications
    Academic article
  • Bächinger, D.; Brühlmann, C.; Honegger, T.; Michalopoulou, E.; Naldi, A. Monge; Wettstein, V.G.. (2019) Endotype-Phenotype Patterns in Meniere’s Disease Based on Gadolinium-Enhanced MRI of the Vestibular Aqueduct. Frontiers in Neurology
    Academic article
  • Muff, Stefanie; Signer, Johannes; Fieberg, John. (2019) Accounting for individual‐specific variation in habitat‐selection studies: Efficient estimation of mixed‐effects models using Bayesian or frequentist computation. Journal of Animal Ecology
    Academic article
  • Bozzuto, Claudio; Biebach, Iris; Muff, Stefanie; Ives, Anothony R.; Keller, Lukas F.. (2019) Inbreeding reduces long-term growth of Alpine ibex populations. Nature Ecology and Evolution
    Academic article

2018

  • Muff, Stefanie; Puhan, Milo A.; Held, Leonhard. (2018) Bias away from the Null due to miscounted outcomes? A case study on the TORCH trial. Statistical Methods in Medical Research
    Academic article
  • Ponzi, Erica; Keller, Lukas F.; Bonnet, Timothee; Muff, Stefanie. (2018) eritability, selection, and the response to selection in the presence of phenotypic measurement error: effects, cures, and the role of repeated measurements. Evolution
    Academic article

Journal publications

  • Saatoglu, Fikriye Dilan; Lundregan, Sarah; Fetterplace, Evelyn; Goedert, Debora; Husby, Arild; Niskanen, Alina Katariina. (2024) The genetic basis of dispersal in a vertebrate metapopulation. Molecular Ecology
    Academic article
  • Skarstein, Emma Sofie; Bastos, Leonardo Soares; Rue, Håvard; Muff, Stefanie. (2024) Bayesian models for missing and misclassified variables using integrated nested Laplace approximations. arXiv.org
    Academic article
  • Skarstein, Emma Sofie; Muff, Stefanie. (2024) inlamemi: An R package for missing data imputation and measurement error modelling using INLA. arXiv.org
    Academic article
  • Aspheim, Janne Cathrin Hetle; Aase, Kenneth; Bolstad, Geir Hysing; Jensen, Henrik; Muff, Stefanie. (2024) Bayesian marker-based principal component ridge regression – a flexible multipurpose framework for quantitative genetics in wild study systems. BioRxiv
    Academic article
  • Arce Guillen, Rafael; Lindgren, Finn Kristian; Muff, Stefanie; Glass, Thomas W.; Breed, Greg A.; Schlägel, Ulrike E.. (2023) Accounting for unobserved spatial variation in step selection analyses of animal movement via spatial random effects. Methods in Ecology and Evolution
    Academic article
  • Nafstad, Ådne Messel; Rønning, Bernt; Aase, Kenneth; Ringsby, Thor Harald; Hagen, Ingerid Julie; Ranke, Peter Sjolte. (2023) Spatial variation in the evolutionary potential and constraints of basal metabolic rate and body mass in a wild bird. Journal of Evolutionary Biology
    Academic article
  • Skarstein, Emma Sofie; Martino, Sara; Muff, Stefanie. (2023) A joint Bayesian framework for missing data and measurement error using integrated nested Laplace approximations. Biometrical Journal
    Academic article
  • Egli, Mathias; Deforth, Manja; Keiser, Stefanie; Meyenberger, Patrick; Muff, Stefanie; Witt, Claudia M.. (2022) Effectiveness of hypnosis in third molar extraction: A randomized controlled trial (HypMol). Journal of Pain
    Academic article
  • Muff, Stefanie; Nilsen, Erlend Birkeland; O'Hara, Robert B.; Nater, Chloe Rebecca. (2022) Response to ‘Why P-values are not measures of evidence’ by D. Lakens. Trends in Ecology & Evolution
    Reader opinion piece
  • Muff, Stefanie; Nilsen, Erlend Birkeland; Nater, Chloe Rebecca; O'Hara, Robert B.. (2022) Joint reply to 'Rewriting results in the language of compatibility' by V. Amrhein and S. Greenland, and to 'The evidence contained in the P-value is context-dependent' by F. Hartig and F. Barraquand. Trends in Ecology & Evolution
    Reader opinion piece
  • Aase, Kenneth; Jensen, Henrik; Muff, Stefanie. (2022) Genomic estimation of quantitative genetic parameters in wild admixed populations. Methods in Ecology and Evolution
    Academic article
  • Muff, Stefanie; Nilsen, Erlend Birkeland; OHara, Robert Brian; Nater, Chloe Rebecca. (2021) Rewriting results sections in the language of evidence. Trends in Ecology & Evolution
    Academic literature review
  • Barth, Jürgen; Muff, Stefanie; Kern, Alexandra; Zieger, Anja; Keiser, Stefanie; Zoller, Marco. (2021) Effect of Briefing on Acupuncture Treatment Outcome Expectations, Pain, and Adverse Side Effects among Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Network Open
    Academic article
  • Reid, Jane Margaret; Arcese, Peter; Nietlisbach, Pirmin; Wolak, Matthew; Muff, Stefanie; Dickel, Lisa. (2021) Immigration counter-acts local micro-evolution of a major fitness component: migration-selection balance in free-living song sparrows. Evolution Letters
    Academic article
  • Lundregan, Sarah L.; Niskanen, Alina K.; Muff, Stefanie; Holand, Håkon; Kvalnes, Thomas; Ringsby, Thor-Harald. (2020) Resistance to gapeworm parasite has both additive and dominant genetic components in house sparrows, with evolutionary consequences for ability to respond to parasite challenge. Molecular Ecology
    Academic article
  • Niskanen, Alina Katariina; Billing, Anna Maria; Holand, Håkon; Hagen, Ingerid Julie; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen; Husby, Arild. (2020) Consistent scaling of inbreeding depression in space and time in a house sparrow metapopulation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS)
    Academic article
  • Weinberger, Irene; Muff, Stefanie; Kranz, Andreas; Bontadina, Fabio. (2019) Riparian vegetation provides crucial shelter for resting otters in a human-dominated landscape. Mammalian Biology
    Academic article
  • Ponzi, Erica; Keller, Lukas F.; Muff, Stefanie. (2019) The simulation extrapolation technique meets ecology and evolution: A general and intuitive method to account for measurement error. Methods in Ecology and Evolution
    Academic article
  • Nietlisbach, Pirmin; Muff, Stefanie; Reid, Jane Margaret; Whitlock, Michael; Keller, Lukas F.. (2019) Nonequivalent lethal equivalents: Models and inbreeding metrics for unbiased estimation of inbreeding load. Evolutionary Applications
    Academic article
  • Muff, Stefanie; Niskanen, Alina Katariina; Saatoglu, Dilan; Keller, Lukas; Jensen, Henrik. (2019) Animal models with group-specific additive genetic variances: extending genetic group models. Genetics Selection Evolution
    Academic article
  • Muff, Stefanie. (2019) Book review for "Bayesian Regression Modeling with INLA" by Xiaofeng Wang, Yu Ryan Yue, and Julian J. Faraway. Journal of the American Statistical Association
    Book review
  • Nietlisbach, Pirmin; Muff, Stefanie; Reid, Jane M.; Whitlock, Michael; Keller, Lukas F.. (2019) Nonequivalent lethal equivalents: Models and inbreeding metrics for unbiased estimation of inbreeding load. Evolutionary Applications
    Academic article
  • Bächinger, D.; Brühlmann, C.; Honegger, T.; Michalopoulou, E.; Naldi, A. Monge; Wettstein, V.G.. (2019) Endotype-Phenotype Patterns in Meniere’s Disease Based on Gadolinium-Enhanced MRI of the Vestibular Aqueduct. Frontiers in Neurology
    Academic article
  • Muff, Stefanie; Signer, Johannes; Fieberg, John. (2019) Accounting for individual‐specific variation in habitat‐selection studies: Efficient estimation of mixed‐effects models using Bayesian or frequentist computation. Journal of Animal Ecology
    Academic article
  • Bozzuto, Claudio; Biebach, Iris; Muff, Stefanie; Ives, Anothony R.; Keller, Lukas F.. (2019) Inbreeding reduces long-term growth of Alpine ibex populations. Nature Ecology and Evolution
    Academic article
  • Muff, Stefanie; Puhan, Milo A.; Held, Leonhard. (2018) Bias away from the Null due to miscounted outcomes? A case study on the TORCH trial. Statistical Methods in Medical Research
    Academic article
  • Ponzi, Erica; Keller, Lukas F.; Bonnet, Timothee; Muff, Stefanie. (2018) eritability, selection, and the response to selection in the presence of phenotypic measurement error: effects, cures, and the role of repeated measurements. Evolution
    Academic article

Report

  • Nafstad, Ådne Messel; Jensen, Henrik; Rønning, Bernt; Muff, Stefanie; Stawski, Clare; Räsänen, Katja. (2024) Ecological & evolutionary role of resting metabolic rate in wild house sparrow populations. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
    Doctoral dissertation
  • Singsaas, Øyvind; Muff, Stefanie. (2024) Neural networks for genomic prediction in the wild. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
    Masters thesis
  • Aase, Kenneth; Muff, Stefanie. (2021) Genetic Group Animal Models in the Genomics Era. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
    Masters thesis

Teaching

Courses

  • ISTT1003 - Statistics
  • TMA4268 - Statistical Learning
  • MA8701 - Advanced statistical methods in inference and learning
  • TMA4240 - Statistics

Outreach

2024

  • Poster
    Aase, Kenneth; Burnett, Hamish Andrew; Jensen, Henrik; Muff, Stefanie. (2024) How accurate is genomic prediction across wild populations?. 7th International Conference of Quantitative Genetics , Wien 2024-07-22 - 2024-07-26

2023

  • Academic lecture
    Goedert, Debora; Saatoglu, Fikriye Dilan; Burnett, Hamish Andrew; Muff, Stefanie; Frank, tor Hansson; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen G.. (2023) Genetic architecture of sex-biased dispersal. WAMBAM 2023-09-04 - 2023-09-08
  • Academic lecture
    Rechsteiner, Aud Helen Halbritter; Grainger, Matthew; Telford, Richard James; Kusch, Erik; Nilsen, Erlend Birkeland; Andrew, Carrie. (2023) Living Norway Course on Open, Reproducible and Transparent Science in Ecology. Living Norway Course on Open, Reproducible and Transparent Science in Ecology , Hjerkinn 2023-11-13 - 2023-11-17
  • Academic lecture
    Goedert, Debora; Burnett, Hamish Andrew; Saatoglu, Fikriye Dilan; Frank, tor Hansson; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen G.; Muff, Stefanie. (2023) Underlying causes and eco-evolutionary consequences of dispersal. Squid Workshop - Brazil , Santuario Caracas 2023-11-23 - 2023-11-27
  • Lecture
    Guillen, Rafael Arce; Lindgren, Finn; Muff, Stefanie; Glass, Thomas W.; Breed, Greg; Schlaegel, Ulrike. (2023) Accounting for unobserved spatial variation in step selection analyses of animal movement via spatial random effects. 16th International conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics (CMStatistics 2023) , Berlin 2023-12-16 - 2023-12-18
  • Academic lecture
    Aase, Kenneth; Jensen, Henrik; Muff, Stefanie. (2023) How accurate is genomic prediction?. 2023 Wild Animal Models Biennial Meeting , Okehampton 2023-09-04 - 2023-09-08

2022

  • Lecture
    Rechsteiner, Aud Helen Halbritter; Endresen, Dag; Nilsen, Erlend Birkeland; Chipperfield, Joseph; Grainger, Matthew; Telford, Richard James. (2022) Open, Reproducible, and Transparent Science in Ecology. Open, Reproducible, and Transparent Science in Ecology , Finse 2022-11-14 - 2022-11-18
  • Poster
    Skarstein, Emma Sofie; Martino, Sara; Muff, Stefanie. (2022) We show how to handle missing data in INLA by generalizing exising measurement error models. ISBA World Meeting 2022 , Montreal 2022-06-26 - 2022-07-01
  • Poster
    Ghimire, Kiran; Burnett, Hamish Andrew; Goedert, Debora; Ranke, Peter Sjolte; Muff, Stefanie; Ringsby, Thor Harald. (2022) Effects of inbreeding on nestling fitness in an insular house sparrow metapopulation in northern Norway. 5th Conference of Nordic Society OIKOS 2022 , Aarhus 2022-06-07 - 2022-06-10
  • Academic lecture
    Muff, Stefanie. (2022) Efficient mixed-effects modeling in habitat selection studies. The Wildlife Society Annual Conference 2022-11-06 - 2022-11-10
  • Lecture
    Muff, Stefanie. (2022) Methods for modeling data from multiple individuals - Implementation of SSFs in INLA and glmmTMB. International Statistical Ecology Conference , Cape Town 2022-06-26 -

2021

  • Poster
    Siren, Jenni; Niskanen, Alina Katariina; Muff, Stefanie; Jensen, Henrik. (2021) Interactions of environment and inbreeding in house sparrows (Passer domesticus). 4th Symposium for Molecular Ecology and Evolution in Finland , Oulu 2021-10-05 - 2021-10-07
  • Poster
    Aspheim, Janne Cathrin Hetle; Jensen, Henrik; Reid, Jane Margaret; Bolstad, Geir Hysing; OHara, Robert Brian; Kvalnes, Thomas. (2021) Marker-based estimation of additive genetic variance using dimension-reduction techniques - methods from animal breeding adapted to wild study systems using a Bayesian framework. he 28th Nordic Conference in Mathematical Statistics , Tromsø 2021-06-21 - 2021-06-24
  • Poster
    Skarstein, Emma Sofie; Muff, Stefanie. (2021) A Joint Bayesian Framework for Measurement Error and Missing Data. NORDSTAT , Tromsø 2021-06-21 - 2021-06-24

2020

  • Academic lecture
    Muff, Stefanie. (2020) Statistical methods in quantitative genetics. Genetic group models and marker-based regression. Talk at Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) , Oslo 2020-03-17 - 2020-03-17

2019

  • Academic lecture
    Niskanen, Alina Katariina; Billing, Anna Maria; Holand, Håkon; Hagen, Ingerid Julie; Huisman, Jisca; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen. (2019) Inbreeding depression in a house sparrow metapopulation. Molecular Ecology and Evolution Lab meeting , Oulu 2019-01-24 - 2019-01-24
  • Poster
    Lundregan, Sarah; Muff, Stefanie; Kvalnes, Thomas; Niskanen, Alina Katariina; Holand, Håkon; Husby, Arild. (2019) Susceptibility to gapeworm parasite has both additive and dominant genetic components in house sparrows. 2019 Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) , Turku 2019-08-19 - 2019-08-24

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