Also called: Clinical Trial Statistician
Designs and analyzes medical studies and clinical trials to tell whether treatments work.
You decide how many patients a vaccine trial needs, write the analysis plan before any data comes in, and present results that the FDA uses to approve or reject a drug.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Doctorate (PhD), about 8 years after high school. Master's or PhD in biostatistics.
Ways in: 4-year college, Graduate school. Training cost: $60k – $150k.
Majors to look at: Biostatistics, Statistics, Public Health.
Growing much faster than average (about 8% over 10 years). Growth is for mathematicians and statisticians combined.
Medium risk for 10 years. AI drafts code and analysis plans; trial design, defending results to the FDA and accountability stay human.
Classes: AP Statistics, AP Calculus, AP Biology.
Official data: O*NET occupation 15-2041.
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