Anne Chao
{{short description|Taiwanese environmental statistician}}
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| birth_name = Lien-Ju Chao
| birth_date = c. 1950 (age c. 74)
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| title = Tsing Hua Distinguished Chair Professor
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| alma_mater = National Tsing Hua University (BS)
University of Wisconsin–Madison (PhD)
| thesis_title = The Quadrature Method in Inference Problems Arising From the Generalized Multinomial Distribution
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| thesis_year = 1977
| doctoral_advisor = Bernard Harris
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| fields = Environmental statistics
| workplaces = National Tsing Hua University
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| notable_works = Diversity Analysis,
Statistical Estimation of Biodiversity Indices
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Lien-Ju Anne Chao ({{zh|t=趙蓮菊}}; born {{Circa}} 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.{{r|cv}} Chao has described herself as "60% statistician, 30% mathematician and 10% ecologist".{{r|methods}} She is known for her work on mark and recapture methods for estimating the size and diversity of populations.{{r|magurran}} The Chao1 and Chao2 estimators of species richness are named after her.{{r|chao84|chao87}}
Education and career
Chao earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics at National Tsing Hua University in 1973. She moved to the United States for graduate studies, completing a PhD in statistics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1977.{{r|cv}} Her dissertation, supervised by Bernard Harris, was The Quadrature Method in Inference Problems Arising From the Generalized Multinomial Distribution.{{r|wisc}}
After working for a year as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Michigan, she returned to National Tsing Hua University as a faculty member in 1978. She was Taiwan National Chair Professor there from 2005 to 2008, and became Tsing Hua Distinguished Chair Professor in 2006.{{r|cv}}
With Lou Jost, Chao is the author of Diversity Analysis (Taylor & Francis, 2008; Chapman & Hall, 2017). She is also the author of Statistical Estimation of Biodiversity Indices (Wiley, 2017) with Chun-Huo Chiu and Jost.{{r|cv}}
Chao was elected as a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 1997.{{r|cv}}
She is also an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.{{r|isimem}}
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External links
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- [http://chao.stat.nthu.edu.tw/wordpress/ Anne Chao's academic website]
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