This guy cares about his students.

In his lectures he sticks strictly to his elaborate powerpoint slides. He posts those online. I never looked them over before going to lecture so I never knew what the big paragraphs said because I was busy trying not to fall asleep.

Don't get me wrong, this guy knows what he is talking about and he will answer all your questions.

My personal opinion is that his lectures were not effective. My learning style might just not be compatible with his method of teaching.

Great class. You'll learn a lot.

I honestly don't understand how this professor is getting such high reviews. After four years of college, this is easily the worst class I have ever taken. I will say that he is easy, and if you put in effort you should easily be able to get an A, but everything about this class is frustrating and a huge waste of time. Despite doing well in the class I don't feel like I know anything more than I did before I took it.

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Would not recommend.
Please don't take the class unless you have a background in statistics (such as AP stats). The way he goes over the material makes it more confusing than it should be. Also, the class has a ton of busy work (labs and articles) that don't add to helping you understand the material. If you do take the class, hope that you get a helpful TA that will break down the material and go over the useless labs and articles so that you don't lose points.

Generally, he is an OK lecturer. He definitely doesn't explain the material as well as he could... He usually reads off the slides, but doesn't explain much further or word things in a way that make it easier to understand. His exams are fair, the textbook is useless, and you basically need to study the quiz questions and why they are right to do well on the conceptual parts of the exams... The material itself is dry, uninteresting, and highly inapplicable to other classes or real life. Lectures are more or less required (clickers), but you will honestly spend more time on the articles, labs, and quizzes (which are all unrelated, useless, and equally as boring). Bottom line, this class is not hard, but it is a big time sink, and most likely 80% of your class isn't going to care much about it either.

Okay, so he is such a nice professor and he really cares about his students. You can clearly see how much he wants you to learn in lecture. He's always available to help students and doesn't get annoyed at those dumb f*cks who ask stupid questions. He really tries to make stats interesting and easy to understand.

I think he's the best prof that teaches Stats 10. From my experience with this class and from what other people have said, all the other stats 10 profs suck and don't give a shit.

THIS IS NOT AN EASY CLASS. Omfg, I have never done so much work for a class before. You have to put in so much time and effort in this class..

1) Go to lecture
attendance is 2% of your grade.. doesn't seem like a lot but it could help you in the end.

2) Read your textbook
Yeah, seriously read that shit. Even as a north campus major, I've gotten As in my classes without fully reading my textbooks for two years now... this is the first class where I've actually read every single word of every single chapter. Reading the textbook helps to understand the concepts from lecture.

3) Grade breakdown

2%= attendance
8% = quizzes
8%= homework
8% = lab
40% = Midterm 1 & Midterm 2
34% = Final

You have quizzes due on mon, labs due tues, and homework due friday...and he drops the lowest score for each one

Midterm 1 was easy. Midterm 2 was so hard.. it was all probability.

The final was ridiculously hard.. more than half of the lecture stayed 30 min after the 3 hours you're initially given to finish the test.

The test format is half multiple choice (around 15-20 questions) and 1 or 2 short answers.

Take it with this prof! It's a lot of work but he's such a nice person. I thought it was worth it. I ended up getting a B because I basically didn't go to the last 4 weeks of class.. if you put in the time you can get an A in the class!! it's a lottttt of work though.

I hope this helps! Good luck, don't forget stats 10 is impacted too so you can't drop it after week 2

He's a genuinely nice guy who cares about his students. He smiles a lot and makes little jokes in class. Every Friday at the end of lecture he tells us all to be safe and don't drink and drive :) Super fair quizzes, midterm, and final. He recycles a lot of questions from his powerpoints and weekly quizzes, so if you study those and have a decent grasp on the material you'll do great on the final. He said numerous times that he would love for the whole class to earn A's. The averages are always really high, which is awesome 'cause he doesn't mind! He does everything he can to help out his students, even holding a video chat the day before an exam for last minute questions (which, it turns out, no one participated in because they didn't need to!) If you forget your clicker for attendance (or, ahem, you decided to sleep in) you can just email him and he'll give you attendance credit. Really... there's nothing bad to say. Easy, caring, good guy. Take him!

I signed up for the E-lecture section, which is the section where you're not allowed to go to lecture, but you watch them online (it's literally the same thing). For as long as I could remember, I hated probability and the type of math associated with statistics, so I was genuinely worried about this class. HOWEVER, this professor is AMAZING. Nicest guy you'll ever meet, he's so dedicated to making sure you understand and that he's always there to help. I e-mailed him a couple times throughout the quarter for help on homework questions and he'd always give such detailed responses. You get a sense that he truly cares for his students. The homework and online quizzes are a bit on the challenging side, but if you go/watch (to) his lectures and study his lecture slides, you are SET for the exams. They are quite easy. Also, chapters 18-22 get pretty confusing at times, so that was when I actually opened the book and read those chapters. People - reading IS helpful sometimes! Do it! It really helped me understanding concepts that were sometimes unclear in lecture. I think that really helped me do well on the exams too.

The course has about 8 quizzes, 6-7 homework assignments assigned weekly, 2 midterms, and a final. Don't worry about the labs either - they're really easy and they can be interesting at times.

Only the lazy people will get anything less than a B+. I highly recommend this class - take it! The professor is nice and the content is sufficient to get by on.

He is one of the more ineffective lecturers I have taken. It is easier for me to understand the material by reading the slides at my own pace in the comfort of my room. He skims over the example problems he provides during class much too fast for people to actually understand what he is doing. There are also periodic and egregious spelling and grammar errors (and typos) on his quiz questions, slides, and exams. It isn't bad enough to where it's a hindrance, but it is extremely unprofessional. He also periodically just copies pages from the textbook into his lecture in lieu of making his own slide. This is NOT HELPFUL since you have to read all the text on the slide... He also shows an entire page of R code in his lectures from time to time in lieu of actually carrying out the arithmetic and calculations. This is especially frustrating because he just spews out answers without explaining the process. There have also been occasions where he uses DIFFERENT NOTATION for the same variable in the same lecture... And on top of all that, sometimes his calculations are just flat out incorrect... Overall, very frustrating going to class. I always leave a bit angrier and more confused than before. If he wasn't so kind and personable, I would be submitting a formal complaint to the Department of Statistics in a heartbeat.

The most ineffective, disorganized, error-prone professor I've had in my four years. Having no stats experience whatsoever, I came in with hopes that I would learn and enjoy stats. Well, that hope is gone and my view of stats is forever tainted, I don't ever want to take another stats class if I'm going to have to learn 90% of the material by myself from online or supplemental material. His slides are horrendous: many typos, skips over a few without context, notations are all over the place, fails to give equations (he wants us to "learn the big picture" and does not give mathematical equations until after he gives a long complex abstract talk that could be condensed into short statements with concrete examples), labs are a complete mess (directions change DAILY and fail to work most of the time), quizzes also fail in many ways (grammar errors that affect the actual answer, gives questions on what we haven't learned). He's a nice guy and he wants people to learn, but really if you want to learn stats from the beginning DO NOT TAKE HIS CLASS PLEASE. If you have previous stats experience from AP or something else it shouldn't be bad because the material seems straightforward enough if somebody taught them well but coming from no stats experience I've pretty much given up on learning stats in class and I am resorting to other materials.

explains well and is very nice during lecture. he will answer any question asked in lecture and will never make u feel dumb and instead say "thats a great question" even if he had just covered the answer in detail. with that being said his midterm was out of very little points. i scored one point below average o the mc and one point below average on the show your work and placed me at a swooping 10% below average (i scored around a C- and average was a B-) which i was very very very bitter about. However i did much better on my final (about 4 or 5 higher than average). This class is ALOT of work...weekly labs, quizes, and articles. however these helped my grade a lot. he has extra credit as well to bump ur grade by 2% which i was thankful for. i ended up getting a B+ in the class due to my midterm grade.

at the beginning he says the grade u get is the amount of work u put into the class and this is very true. i found his tests to be very fair yet challenging. his tests truly measure understanding and he really respects the students' intellect. overall i recommend him.