The Biostatistics option leads to the professions of statistician practiced in the pharmaceutical laboratory, in the food industry, in hospitals or in public medical research organizations. These professions require specific skills in statistics for genetics, agronomy, ecology, public health, epidemiology, molecular biology, or for the analysis of the efficacy of a new drug through trials. clinics. This training ambition leads on the one hand to make a diversified recruitment, and on the other hand to create a multidisciplinary framework adapted to a heterogeneous public.
For students coming from a mathematical field, this training allows them to understand the problems of the biologist or the doctor, for the development and the implementation of the adequate statistical tools. In addition, biological or medical perspectives provide a large pool of mathematical problems for students interested in the theoretical aspects of the discipline.
For agronomists or medical students, one of the objectives of the training is to enhance their knowledge of data processing methods, while emphasizing the need for investment in mathematical statistics. Thus, at the end of the training, the students will have acquired a necessary recoil to the use of the methods proposed in the software of statistics and sufficient knowledge to engage, either directly in a job, or in a research work on a theoretical or applied problem.