Lien-Ju Anne Chao (Chinese: 趙蓮菊; born c. 1950) is a Taiwanese environmental statistician.
[4][5] Chao earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics at National Tsing Hua University in 1973.
[1] Her dissertation, supervised by Bernard Harris, was The Quadrature Method in Inference Problems Arising From the Generalized Multinomial Distribution.
[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.