Institut de Statistiques de l'Université de Paris (ISUP, roughly translated as "Paris Institute of Statistics" or literally to "Institute of Statistics of the University of Paris") is a graduate school of statistics based in Paris, in the fifth arrondissement. It offers specializations in actuarial sciences (

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and

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as well as industry and services. The ISUP is considered one of the most prestigious centers of learning of statistics in France, reflected in the number of job offers received regularly, the strength of its alumni network, and wages offered to its students out of school, which place it in the "top 15-ranked" French

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Founded in 1922 by the mathematician

Émile Borel Félix Édouard Justin Émile Borel (; 7 January 1871 – 3 February 1956) was a French mathematician and politician. As a mathematician, he was known for his founding work in the areas of measure theory and probability. Biography Borel was ...

, is the oldest and one of the most prestigious schools for

statistics Statistics (from German language, German: ''wikt:Statistik#German, Statistik'', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of ...

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. The institute is currently affiliated to

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and located on the campus of Jussieu.

History

Origin

The ISUP is the oldest training statistics in France: it was founded in 1922 (by the mathematician

) 20 years before the ENSAE and 72 years before the ENSAI. At the end of the Great War, Émile Borel, one of the greatest mathematicians of his time, was appointed to the Chair of Probability and Mathematical Physics at the University of Paris. So at this time, there is almost no teaching of statistics and the idea of applying mathematics to any specific field arouses contempt "real" mathematicians. Borel is confident that in economy - in Insurance, in particular - there is a demand. This intuition is the basis for the creation of the ISUP 1922. During the thirty years that followed, under the leadership of mathematical leaders, ISUP will initiate the introduction in France, the teaching of statistics and industrial applications, management or Operational Research.

Notable people from ISUP

, Academician, fondator and first director *

Maurice Allais Maurice Félix Charles Allais (31 May 19119 October 2010) was a French physicist and economist, the 1988 winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for his pioneering contributions to the theory of markets and efficient utilization o ...

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1988, professor at l'ISUP during 21 years *

Georges Darmois Georges Darmois (24 June 1888 – 3 January 1960) was a French mathematician and statistician. He pioneered in the theory of sufficiency, in stellar statistics, and in factor analysis. He was also one of the first French mathematicians to teach ...

, Academician, former director * Daniel Dugué, Academician, former director, author for

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(Calculation of

probability Probability is the branch of mathematics concerning numerical descriptions of how likely an Event (probability theory), event is to occur, or how likely it is that a proposition is true. The probability of an event is a number between 0 and ...

) *

Jean-Paul Benzécri Jean-Paul Benzécri was a French people, French mathematician and statistician. He studied at École Normale Supérieure and was professor at University of Rennes 1, Université de Rennes and later for most of his career at the Paris Institute of ...

, Normalien, professor at ISUP, initiator of

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* Gérard Calot, Polytechnician, then student at ISUP, director of l' INED *

Paul Deheuvels Paul Deheuvels (born 11 March 1948 in Istanbul) is a French statistician. He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences. Career Paul Deheuvels is the son of René Deheuvels. Normalien (class of 1967), agrégé de mathématiques (1969), d ...

, Academician, currently professor *

Dominique Strauss-Kahn Dominique Gaston André Strauss-Kahn (; born 25 April 1949), also known as DSK, is a French economist and politician who served as the tenth managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and was a member of the French Socialist P ...

, former Director of

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, former student. * Éric Le Boucher, Director of economy magazine Enjeux-Les Echos. *

Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (born Nicolae Georgescu, 4 February 1906 – 30 October 1994) was a Romanian mathematician, statistician and economist. He is best known today for his 1971 ''The Entropy Law and the Economic Process'', in which he argu ...

, Romanian mathematician, statistician and economist, progenitor of Ecological economics, former student.

The ISUP today

The current headmaster is Olivier Lopez. Among teachers, traditionally shared with the

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or with some

ESSEC The École Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales (more commonly ESSEC Business School or ESSEC) is a major French business and management school, with non-profit association status (French association law of 1901) founded in 1907 ...

(partner school) or Dauphine (other actuarial school), several have a worldwide reputation for their research. These include Jean Jacod (the Franco-German Science Award 2008),

(a member of the

Academy of Sciences An academy of sciences is a type of learned society or academy (as special scientific institution) dedicated to sciences that may or may not be state funded. Some state funded academies are tuned into national or royal (in case of the Unit ...

), Gérard Biau (2003 prices young statistician of the French Society of Statistics). On its website, the administration announced that it received 1,064 job offers in 2007, it represents more than 20 offers per student. The average compensation for hiring students ISUP makes the ISUP among major French schools that offer the best remuneration.

Programs

ISUP is a 3-year academic.

Core

* Optimization (mathematics) * Measure Theory * Integration theory * Probability * Data Analysis 'Univariate and multivariate' * Statistics * Software SAS *

Economics Economics () is the social science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and intera ...

* Stochastic processes * Linear regression models * Econometrics * Inferential statistics * Corporate finance * Time series analysis * Sampling theory * Non-parametric statistical * Segmentation and classification

Actuarial Sciences

* Financial Mathematics * Insurance Mathematics * Stochastic Calculus in finance * Modern Portfolio Theory * Insurance Regulation *

General insurance General insurance or non-life insurance policy, including automobile and homeowners policies, provide payments depending on the loss from a particular financial event. General insurance is typically defined as any insurance that is not determine ...

* Life-insurance *

Reinsurance Reinsurance is insurance that an insurance company purchases from another insurance company to insulate itself (at least in part) from the risk of a major claims event. With reinsurance, the company passes on ("cedes") some part of its own insu ...

Accounting Accounting, also known as accountancy, is the measurement, processing, and communication of financial and non financial information about economic entities such as businesses and corporations. Accounting, which has been called the "languag ...

* Pension Fund

Biostatistic

Industry risks

Research

LSTA

Most teachers take part in scientific research in the areas of statistics, most often at the Laboratory of theoretical and applied statistics (LSTA). It is a major laboratory of research in statistics thanks to the number and impact of publications. It has 8 professors (including a member of the Academy of Sciences), 10 Lecturers, 20 external and 80 doctoral and post-doctoral students.

External links

Official website

Alumni website

Site du LSTA
LSTA website * Laurent Mazliak (2010
Borel, Fréchet, Darmois: La découverte des statistiques par les probabilistes français.
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