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]
Lien-Ju Chao | |
|---|---|
| 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
editChao 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.[1] Her dissertation, supervised by Bernard Harris, was The Quadrature Method in Inference Problems Arising From the Generalized Multinomial Distribution.[6] 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.[7]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e Brief curriculum vitae, National Tsing Hua University, retrieved 2017-11-24
- ^ Grieves, Chris (2 December 2015), "New Associate Editor: Anne Chao", Methods in Ecology and Evolution
- ^ Magurran, Anne E. (2013), Measuring Biological Diversity, John Wiley & Sons, p. 95, ISBN 9781118687925,
Many of the methods were devised by Anne Chao and her colleagues. They are both elegant and efficient and offer probably the most significant advance in diversity measurement in more than a decade.
- ^ Chao, Anne (1984), "Nonparametric Estimation of the Number of Classes in a Population", Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, 11 (4): 265–270, ISSN 0303-6898, JSTOR 4615964, retrieved 2024-08-06
- ^ Chao, Anne (1987), "Estimating the Population Size for Capture-Recapture Data with Unequal Catchability", Biometrics, 43 (4): 783–791, doi:10.2307/2531532, ISSN 0006-341X, JSTOR 2531532, PMID 3427163, retrieved 2024-08-06
- ^ Wisconsin statistics dissertations, retrieved 2017-11-24
- ^ Individual members, International Statistical Institute, archived from the original on 2017-07-29, retrieved 2017-11-23
External links
edit- Anne Chao publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Anne Chao's academic website