Prof Esfandiari is very nice however her lectures are very hard to understand. She clearly is a very smart lady but it seems as though her class is very disorganized and thus makes it very hard to follow. I took stats 10 and barely went to lecture because I gave up on learning in them. I did the homework, quizzes, and labs and got As on them. The first midterm is VERY easy. The second is harder and the final is fair. I took this class pass / no pass and it was pretty obvious I was going to fail. I spoke with her and she genuinely cared about my grades and ultimately passed me. VERY NICE BUT NOT A GREAT LECTURER. Only take her if you are willing to read the textbook and teach it to yourself.

she is really really f u c k ing professor! Her lecture note is a lot of typo & lecture note is more confusion to understand material! I think that she read bruinwalk but she stick to stupid lecture and material. DO NOT TAKE ALL HER CLASSES. DO NOT TAKE ALL HER CLASSES. DO NOT TAKE ALL HER CLASSES. DO NOT TAKE ALL HER CLASSES. DO NOT TAKE ALL HER CLASSES. DO NOT TAKE ALL HER CLASSES. DO NOT TAKE ALL HER CLASSES. DO NOT TAKE ALL HER CLASSES. DO NOT TAKE ALL HER CLASSES. DO NOT TAKE ALL HER CLASSES. DO NOT TAKE ALL HER CLASSES. DO NOT TAKE ALL HER CLASSES. DO NOT TAKE ALL HER CLASSES. Esfandiari go home and care baby.

this is by far the worst and most horrible teach in ucla i had！ her lecture is complete bs and full of typo and grammar! waste of time if u go! on her midterm she even had a typo that was read cum instead of cummulative, do not take her class, if u could take it with any other statistic professor!!!!

Horrible class, she is very confusing professor. Her lecture is useless. overall. I do not really like her teaching styles. I will not suggests you to take the class unless you can teach yourself.

Esfandiari is a very nice lady, but is by far the worst professor I have ever had at UCLA. The syllabus and her online quizzes have tons and tons of typos. On the quizzes it is almost impossible to understand some of the questions because of how many typos there are. Her lectures are terrible. She has a very thick accent which makes it nearly impossible to understand what she is saying. Also, her lectures are very disorganized. She jumps from one topic to the next and then back again. I went to most of the lectures, and struggled to take anything from them. I had to read the entire book to understand the material. It is safe to say that i learned 99% of the content by myself without the help of discussion or lecture. DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS WITH ESFANDIARi. I spent way too much time studying for this class because of how bad the professor is.

Nice women, But I do not suggest to take class with her. Her lecture is useless, and the handout is helpful. However, I have a hard time to understand her. The TA seems expect she will explain everything about the class during the lecture, so he is not that helpful at all. The Quizs sometimes is so confused because Professor is not native speaker, she always makes some error in the handout and quizs. Exams are fair, but the much point in the MC. It is like you did a MC wrong, he score would went down a grade. She does not focus on calculation too much because she says she is not good at math. so she focus on the concepts.
So, in my suggestion, you are good at math, and english is not that good, take the other Professor.
And the last thing, I hate that she will pick up students to answer question during the lecture. it is meanless, and not helpful at all.

I admit, she's very nice and helpful. She gives out tons of handouts to study from in addition to the book. And she is very good with sending a lot of emails to remind students about deadlines and other information.

However, she is NOT an effective professor. Lecture was a waste of time; I learned NOTHING from going to class. The book is very good and I just read from that and did the assigned problems. The TA wasn't very helpful either, because they seem to think that a leisurely time spent in lecture and discussion is the best way to help students learn. No. Actually TEACH the material during lecture and ANSWER students' questions in discussion without going on a tangent. Even on the days when I tried my best to understand what the heck was going on, there was no way I could even barely engage myself in what she was talking about. Useless. The material isn't that hard, but the students in the class make it seem like so.

Bottom line: nice but ineffective professor.

Mahtash is a very kind woman and is very available to help you out from what I understand, not that I ever went to OH. Stats 10 is also a very basic introductory course and the content is a breeze.

Now that we've got that out of the way, she's a terrible lecturer who spends too much time on side topics/telling terrible jokes/answering stupid questions and she has this annoying habit of asking the class to raise their hand to see if they understand things. The lectures are very poorly organized and you'd probably be better off reading the textbook instead of attending. I went to lecture just because it was at 11 and I had a class at 12. Her English is poor and it shows on her lecture notes and online quizzes, both of which are full of grammar and spelling errors. The class grade is curved so about 30% will get A- or better and it is based on homework, labs, online quizzes, midterm, and final. She drops the lowest homework grade, and you get the best eight quiz scores out of a total of twelve taken.

Try to get Kevin Nichols as your TA, he's very straightforward and will tell you everything you need to know to do well in the class. I got an A in the class with minimal effort, good luck to all.

Esfandiari is the one of the worst professors at UCLA!!!! Her lectures are so unorganized and all of the place which makes it difficult to understand the freakin material. The only good thing about this class was that is was curved and the TA was the bomb!!!! If you end up taking this class with Escandiari make sure Kevin Nichols is your TA!!!!

M. Esfandiari is a sweet woman who comes to class everyday perfectly put together and excited. However, her teaching methods are really confusing, her lecture notes don't make much sense and have weird/useless examples, and her exams are tough (and hard to study for).

Read the textbook (it really helps). Stats is a hard class, especially for non-science majors since it's a math class even if no one wants to call it that.

Lots of hw, labs, classtime. Need to go to lecture.

STUDY HARD, this class is not easy