Anne Chao

Lien-Ju Chao
趙蓮菊
Born
Lien-Ju Chao

c. 1950 (age c. 74)
Alma materNational Tsing Hua University (BS)
University of Wisconsin–Madison (PhD)
Notable workDiversity Analysis,
Statistical Estimation of Biodiversity Indices
TitleTsing Hua Distinguished Chair Professor
Scientific career
FieldsEnvironmental statistics
InstitutionsNational Tsing Hua University
Thesis The Quadrature Method in Inference Problems Arising From the Generalized Multinomial Distribution  (1977)
Doctoral advisorBernard Harris

Lien-Ju Anne Chao (Chinese: 趙蓮菊; born c. 1950) is a Taiwanese environmental statistician. She works in the Institute of Statistics at National Tsing Hua University, where she is Tsing Hua Distinguished Chair Professor and a former Taiwan National Chair Professor.[1] Chao has described herself as "60% statistician, 30% mathematician and 10% ecologist".[2] She is known for her work on mark and recapture methods for estimating the size and diversity of populations.[3] The Chao1 and Chao2 estimators of species richness are named after her.[4][5]

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