10 Facts About Anne Chao

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Lien-Ju Anne Chao is a Taiwanese environmental statistician.

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Anne Chao is known for her work on mark and recapture methods for estimating the size and diversity of populations.

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Anne Chao 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.

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Anne Chao earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics at National Tsing Hua University in 1973.

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Anne Chao moved to the US for graduate study, completing a Ph.

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Anne Chao's dissertation, supervised by Bernard Harris, was The Quadrature Method in Inference Problems Arising From the Generalized Multinomial Distribution.

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Anne Chao was Taiwan National Chair Professor there from 2005 to 2008, and became Tsing Hua Distinguished Chair Professor in 2006.

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Anne Chao is the author with of Statistical Estimation of Biodiversity Indices with Chun-Huo Chiu and Jost.

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Anne Chao was elected as a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 1997.

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Anne Chao is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.