Anne Chao
Taiwanese environmental statistician
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Lien-Ju Anne Chao (Chinese: 趙蓮菊; born c. 1950) is a Taiwanese environmental statistician. She is the Tsing Hua Distinguished Chair Professor of Statistics and a former Taiwan National Chair Professor at National Tsing Hua University.[1] She is known for her work on mark and recapture methods for estimating the size and diversity of populations.[2] The Chao1 and Chao2 estimators of species richness are named after her.[3][4]
c. 1950 (age c. 74)
Statistical Estimation of Biodiversity Indices
Lien-Ju Chao | |
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| 趙蓮菊 | |
| Born | Lien-Ju Chao c. 1950 (age c. 74) |
| Alma mater | National Tsing Hua University (BS) University of Wisconsin–Madison (PhD) |
| Notable work | Diversity Analysis, Statistical Estimation of Biodiversity Indices |
| Title | Tsing Hua Distinguished Chair Professor |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Environmental statistics |
| Institutions | National Tsing Hua University |
| Thesis | The Quadrature Method in Inference Problems Arising From the Generalized Multinomial Distribution (1977) |
| Doctoral advisor | Bernard Harris |
Education and career
Chao graduated from National Tsing Hua University with a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in mathematics in 1973. She then pursued doctoral studies in the United States, earning her Ph.D. in statistics in 1977 from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.[1] Her dissertation, supervised by Bernard Harris, was The Quadrature Method in Inference Problems Arising From the Generalized Multinomial Distribution.[5]
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.[1]
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.[1]
Chao was elected as a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 1997.[1] She is also an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.[6] Chao has described herself as "60% statistician, 30% mathematician and 10% ecologist".[7]