Lien-Ju Anne Chao () is a Taiwanese environmental statistician. She works in the Institute of Statistics at

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, where she is Tsing Hua Distinguished Chair Professor and a former Taiwan National Chair Professor. Chao has described herself as "60% statistician, 30% mathematician and 10% ecologist". She is known for her work on

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methods for estimating the size and

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of populations. She has authored or co-authored a number of software tools for quantifying and estimating biological diversity, and her scholarly works have been cited more than 23,000 times as of November 2019. Chao earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics at National Tsing Hua University in 1973. She moved to the U.S. for graduate study, completing a Ph.D. in statistics at the

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in 1977. Her dissertation, supervised by Bernard Harris, was ''The Quadrature Method in Inference Problems Arising From the Generalized Multinomial Distribution''. After working for a year as a visiting assistant professor at the

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, 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. With Lou Jost, Chao is the author of ''Diversity Analysis'' (Taylor & Francis, 2008; Chapman & Hall, 2017). She is also the author with of ''Statistical Estimation of Biodiversity Indices'' (Wiley, 2017) with Chun-Huo Chiu and Jost. Chao was elected as a fellow of the

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in 1997. She is also an elected member of the

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Anne Chao's academic website
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