Anne Chao
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 |
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. She is known for her work on mark and recapture methods for estimating the size and diversity of populations. The Chao1 and Chao2 estimators of species richness are named after her.